'Spies in disguise' trivia and fun facts
Last of the decade
The last animated film of the 2010s.
The first for Holland
Tom Holland's first animated film (not counting the English Dub of Kari-gurashi no Arietti (2010)).
First time
This is the first animated film from 20th Century Fox to be distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
Sin Walt Disney Studios
Blue Sky's first film to be released as a division of Walt Disney Studios.
With humans
The 7th Blue Sky Studios Films to have humans, after Ice Age (2002), Rio (2011), Epic (2013), Rio 2 (2014), The Peanuts Movie (2015), and Ferdinand (2017). The others were all humanless.
Chernin Entertainment
Chernin Entertainment's first animated film.
Rashida Jones
Rashida Jones' 3rd Animated Film, after Inside Out (2015) and The Grinch (2018).
A perspective thing
The third Blue Sky Studios film shooting from a human's perspective (which can switch during the scenes of Lance Sterling's pigeon form), after Epic (2013) and The Peanuts Movie (2015). The other films were shot through animal perspectives (and a robot's perspective in the case of Robots (2005)).
Curious connection
Both Will Smith and Karen Gillan share a connection - Robin Williams. Will Smith took on Williams's iconic Disney character The Genie in Aladdin (2019), a remake of the 1992 classic animated Disney movie. Karen Gillan starred in both Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) and Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) which are in fact the two sequels to the classic 1995 Robin Williams movie.
Holland and Gillian
Tom Holland and Karen Gillan previously co-starred in Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019).
Animation for Will Smith
Will Smith's first animated film since Shark Tale (2004) released 15 years prior.
A "super" thing
Each of the principal actors: Ben Mendelsohn, Karen Gillan, Tom Holland, and Will Smith, have portrayed either superheroes or supervillains in comic book films.
Characters' design
The character designs this film are similar to the character designs used in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009), Arthur Christmas (2011), Hotel Transilvania (2012), Storks (2016), and Smallfoot (2018), all of which were animated at Sony Pictures Imageworks.
Multiple delays
The film's original release date was January 18th, 2019, but was then pushed back to April 19th, 2019. It got pushed back again to September 13th, 2019. And it got pushed back once more to Christmas day on December 25th, 2019.
Without 20th Century Fox
The first Blue Sky Studios film not distributed by 20th Century Fox, although the company remains as a part of the film's production companies.