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Chicken Little (2005)

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• The original plans were to have the beginning of this film, telling the establishing story of Chicken Little and the acorn, in traditional ("hand-drawn") animation. Don Knotts, who supplied the voice of Turkey Lurkey, the town Mayor, recorded the voice track as the narrator for this sequence. The idea was abandoned and that part of the story was refashioned as a main part of the film and done in computer animation.
  
  
• Holly Hunter was considered for the role of Chicken Little.
  
  
• There are 250,000 feathers on Chicken Little.
  
  

• Loosely based upon the fable "The Sky is Falling". The story only bears minute similarities to the movie, such as the idea of "the sky is falling" and the rhyming names (Turkey Lurkey, Foxy Loxy, et al). The story was previously adapted by Disney in 1943 as Chicken Little (1943).
  
  
• Morkubine Porcupine says three words in the entire movie. They are, in order: "Yo", "No", and "Whoa".
  
  
• The first motion picture made in the Dimensionalization process by ILM for the 3-D version.
  
  
• The first fully computer generated feature film produced in-house by Disney.
  
  
• First film released in REAL D's digital 3D format.
  
  
• Don Knotts' last film.
  
  
• Chicken Little was originally going to be a girl.
  
  
• Dedicated to the memory of Joe Grant (1908-2005).
  
  
• This film had an exclusive trailer in the film The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005). It starts out with the beginning of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's teaser trailer and then turned into ‘Chicken Little’.
  
  
• Mark Dindal, a huge fan of "Dave The Barbarian" (2004), wanted Danny Cooksey to voice the character Runt of the Litter.
  
  
• In the scene where Buck Cluck is driving Chicken Little to school, they stop at a red light. In the background, you see a bird walking into a storefront window twice. The store owner comes out to investigate. He's a bull. The store is full of China. The proverbial "Bull in a China Shop".
  
  
• During the opening sequence, when the water tower ball crushes 3 cars, their horns sound off the M-O-U-S-E portion of "The Mickey Mouse Club" (1955) theme.
  
  
• The technical team built a digital tool called "Chicken Wire", which is a geometric wire-frame model of the characters that the animators could squash, stretch, and smear. They wanted to get a 2D animation style in 3D animation.
  
  
• The technical team built a program called "Shelf Control", which allowed the animators to see the whole model on screen, while having a direct access to any chosen area of the character.
  
  
• Editor Dan Molina performed the "voice" of Fish Out of Water by vocalizing through a tube into a water cooler tank full of water.
  
  

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