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- Referencenod to comics or other movies
- Cameoa familiar face shows up
- Setupplanted now, pays off later
- Behind the scenesproduction trivia
- Behind the scenesThe family road trip that became a film
John Lasseter took a cross-country road trip with his wife and five sons in 2000. Back at the studio, he called Michael Wallis, a Route 66 historian, who led eleven Pixar animators on two trips in rented white Cadillacs. In 2001 the working title was Route 66.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe eyes sit in the windshield
Lasseter decided from the start that the cars' eyes would go in the windshield, not the headlights as in more common cartoons. Production designer Bob Pauley said that sets the characters apart from other animated cars.
source ↗ - CameoPaul Newman and Joe Ranft
Paul Newman voices Doc Hudson. It was his last film role outside documentaries. The film is dedicated to Joe Ranft, whose last Pixar job it was: Ranft died in a car crash a year before release.
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- ReferenceA Cars DVD extra
The short came out as a Cars DVD extra on November 7, 2006. On November 6, 2007 it returned on the Cars Blu-ray and in the Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 1.
source ↗ - CameoPaul Newman returns as Doc
Larry the Cable Guy, Owen Wilson, Bonnie Hunt, Paul Newman, Michael Wallis, Cheech Marin and Paul Dooley reprise their roles from the film. John Lasseter directs.
source ↗ - SetupThe Route 66 legend
The Ghostlight is a Route 66 urban legend: a blue light that haunts Radiator Springs and hates clanking metal. Sheriff tells the tale, and Mater, who'd been scaring everyone else, panics.
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- Behind the scenesThe spy idea came from a deleted scene
Lasseter said Cars 2 came from three places, and one was an abandoned sequence from the first film that suggested a spy story. The first storyboard for the opening grew out of a deleted scene from Cars.
source ↗ - ChangeThe Grand Prix had five races
The original idea had five races, including a 24-hour endurance race in Paris and a rally in the Black Forest. With the film running long, only three stayed: Tokyo, the fictional Porto Corsa and London. The Paris scene became a stop to meet an informant.
source ↗ - ChangeEach country got a local driver
In international versions, driver Jeff Gorvette is replaced in dialogue scenes by local racers. Brazil gets Carla Veloso, Latin America gets Memo Rojas, Spain gets Fernando Alonso and Germany gets Sebastian Vettel.
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- ReferenceA tribute to Miyazaki
In October 2014, at the Tokyo International Film Festival, John Lasseter revealed the film would pay tribute to Hayao Miyazaki's The Castle of Cagliostro, in the form of an old Citroën 2CV.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesAnimation and rendering at the same time
The film used a new rendering mode called RIS, already used in Finding Dory. Before, animators did the animation first and rendered later. RIS let both happen at once, which made scenes like the Crazy Eight derby possible.
source ↗ - CameoNASCAR drivers become cars
Chase Elliott, Ryan Blaney, Bubba Wallace and Daniel Suárez voice versions of themselves as next-gen racers: Chase Racelott, Ryan "Inside" Laney, Bubba Wheelhouse and Danny Swervez. The short Lou played before the film in theaters.
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- ReferenceAnnounced in 2020, out in 2022
The series was announced at Disney's Investor Day in December 2020, and the title was revealed in November 2021 at Disney+ Day. It premiered on September 8, 2022 with nine episodes of about eight minutes. Steve Purcell wrote it.
source ↗ - ReferenceNods to horror and Mad Max
Episode ideas included nods to Mad Max (1979) and The Shining. In one, McQueen and Mater check into a spooky hotel, and in another they land in a post-apocalyptic fighting arena, the Thundercone.
source ↗ - SetupThe groom is Cruz's cousin
In the last episode, the wedding is between Mater's sister Mato and Mateo, cousin of Cruz Ramirez, the trainer McQueen helped at the end of Cars 3. The series takes place after that film.
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- ChangeIt was meant for home video
Planes was set to go direct-to-video in the US, with a theatrical release only in Europe. In December 2012, Disney decided on theaters. It was the first Disneytoon Studios film in US theaters since Pooh's Heffalump Movie, eight and a half years earlier.
source ↗ - ReferencePremiere at an air show, with a real Dusty
The film premiered on August 2, 2013 at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh in Wisconsin, a gathering of aviation fans. Disney brought a real-life Dusty, an Air Tractor AT-400A flown by its owner, crop-duster pilot Rusty Lindeman.
source ↗ - CameoJon Cryer almost played Dusty
Jon Cryer was announced as Dusty's voice before Dane Cook took over. Cryer kept a credit for "additional story material". Skipper and Sparky come from the Cars Toon "Air Mater", with the same voices, Stacy Keach and Danny Mann.
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- Behind the scenesFrom racing film to disaster film
Director Bobs Gannaway wanted a different genre for each film. The first was a race film, and he wanted the second to be an action-disaster movie. Production began six months after the first film started.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesResearch with real firefighters
The team researched air-attack crews and smokejumpers by working with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE). They also sent a crew to the US Forest Service's annual smokejumper training.
source ↗ - ReferencePulaski is named for a real hero
The name Pulaski comes from Ed Pulaski, who saved most of his crew in the Great Fire of 1910 by sheltering them in an abandoned mine. He also invented the firefighting axe-adze that bears his name.
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