FILM · 2012 · USA
Moonrise Kingdom
14 archived facts 3 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026
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- #001
The beach dance scene was saved for the end of the shoot so that the two young leads would be comfortable with each other, and it was filmed on a closed set with only the two leads, co-writer and director Wes Anderson, and the cameraman present.
- #002
In the film, Laura Bishop shouts at various family members through a megaphone. The idea came from co-writer Roman Coppola's childhood; his mother, Eleanor Coppola, had used a megaphone in a similar way.
- #003
After filming was completed, Kara Hayward took home the kitten owned by her character Suzy, and Jared Gilman took the backpack used by his character Sam.
- #004
Indian Chief Khaki Scout is Bill Murray's real-life son.
- #005
The film opened in only four theaters, two in New York and two in Los Angeles, but earned $167,250 per screen, an all-time record for the highest per-theater box office average for a non-animated film.
- #006
Kara Hayward did her own makeup.
- #007
This is the first Wes Anderson film without Owen Wilson.
- #008
When the film first shows the scene where Scout Master Ward (Edward Norton) records his notes on a recording device, there is a framed picture of Commander Pierce (Harvey Keitel) next to the recorder. At the end of the film, the picture is replaced by one of switchboard operator Becky (Marianna Bassham).
- #009
During filming, Bill Murray taught Jared Gilman how to tie a tie for the first time.
- #010
At the very end of the film, the words "For Juman" appear in the corner. This refers to Wes Anderson's girlfriend, Juman Malouf.
- #011
According to Jared Gilman, the scene that required the most takes was the one in which he holds out the beetle earrings to Suzy. Every time he did it, either the earrings were not in frame or he was not holding them correctly.
- #012
Although Suzy's books in the film are fake, "Noye's Fludde" is a real 1957 opera by Benjamin Britten. The text is based on Alfred W. Pollard's edition of an early fifteenth-century mystery play from the Chester Mystery Cycle. The opera was written to be performed primarily by amateurs, and Britten stipulated that it be performed not in a theater but in a church or large hall. So why is it being performed by children in a church?
- #013
It was the opening film of the 65th Cannes Film Festival in 2012.
- #014
There are numerous references to corn. In addition to the film's yellow and orange palette, comments are made about corn, Scout Master Ward is seen twice reading "Indian Corn Magazine," Sam constantly smokes a corncob pipe, three Bishop boys eat only corn on the cob in one dinner scene, the outside of the kettle in Sam's foster family's kitchen bears the famous Corning Corn Flower pattern, and at the end of the film the island's best corn crop in fifty years is mentioned.
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