Freedom Planet (film)/Trivia

Trivia of the 2016 film Freedom Planet.

Trivia

 * Before Nitrogen Studios was announced to be the animation service of Freedom Planet, Sabrina DiDuro pitched the film to numerous animation companies such as Mercury Filmworks, Arc Productions, Bardel Entertainment, Guru Studio, DHX Media, and Yowza! Animation, who all passed down on it. Eventually, co-founder of Nitrogen Greg Tiernan discovered Freedom Planet, and being aware of the film project, he contacted DiDuro to ask permission to animate the film, to which she accepted.
 * Freedom Planet uses both anime-style and computer-generated types of animation to match the setting of the original game. Co-director Greg Tiernan said that this was done because the game is influenced by a lot of Asian culture, so to match the tone, he asked the animators of Nitrogen to give a smiliar anime-esque animation style, all while still rendering the film in CGI.
 * The score of the film was performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, which were composed by Daniel Ingram and William Anderson, and conducted by Richard Balcombe.
 * Claire Corlett, Michelle Creber, Ian James Corlett, Nicole Oliver, Tara Strong, Madeleine Peters, John de Lancie, Jayson Thiessen, Sarah Wall, Devon Cody, Meghan McCarthy, Kirsten Newlands, Brian Drummond, Daniel Ingram, William Anderson, Ashleigh Ball, Shannon Chan-Kent, Brian Dobson, Michael Dobson, Kazumi Evans, Andrea Libman, Kelly Sheridan, Rebecca Shoichet, Tabitha St. Germain, Vincent Tong, Sam Vincent, and Cathy Weseluck all worked on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
 * Joseph May, John Hasler, Greg Tiernan, Nicole Stinn, Arlyn Bantog, Kevin Pavlovic, Ellery Van Dooyeweert, Jeff Bailey, Jordan Vanderzalm, Jean-Paul Ledoux, Boris Andreev, Steven Elford, and many others worked on Thomas & Friends.
 * Additionally, John Hurt also worked on Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure.
 * According to co-director Conrad Vernon, Freedom Planet was originally conceived as a musical until creative differences toned down the songs featured in the film.
 * The fourth wall is broken during the scrolling credits, where various characters of the film thank the audience for watching the film.
 * The film's PG rating received mixed reviews due to it featuring frightening and intense scenes than most animated films. However, according to writer Matt Lieberman, there was certain scenes cut from the film that were more intense for young children. They were cut to lower the rating to a PG rating.

Cultural references

 * Carol's poster is a reference to the cover of the 1977 album Bat Out of Hell by Meat Loaf.
 * The imaginative fight scene between Milla and May is a supposed reference to Gnomeo and Tybalt's fight in Gnomeo & Juliet.
 * Kuro getting sucked out of the airlock is similar to when the Alien was killed in the 1979 film of the same name.
 * Coincidentally, John Hurt (Kuro) played a role in that film.