FILM · 2003 · USA
Spy Kids 3: Game Over
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- #001
George Clooney's scenes were shot in one afternoon in his own living room, wearing a suit jacket, shirt, tie and pajama pants.
- #002
This was Ricardo Montalban's last live-action film appearance.
- #003
Steve Buscemi agreed to take a role in the film on the condition that Robert Rodriguez personally assured him he could keep Sporky, the flying pig, after production was completed.
- #004
Robert Rodriguez wrote the role of 'The Guy' with Elijah Wood in mind. Wood had previously appeared in Rodriguez's The Faculty (1998), shortly before learning about The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001). The suit Wood wore actually belonged to the character Juni, but it was spray-painted silver and taped to him with cello tape because it barely fit. In the shot where Wood kneels to talk to the others, he is actually looking at the ground to create the impression that everyone else is towering over him.
- #005
Because of the shooting schedules, most of the actors playing the characters in the final scene were never on set at the same time and were brought together digitally.
- #006
In an interview, Sylvester Stallone said he asked his children about the earlier Spy Kids films and whether he should accept the role in the third film.
- #007
The cat Juni rescues from the tree belonged to Daryl Sabara, who plays Juni.
- #008
This was Selena Gomez's first film appearance.
- #009
Top-billed Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino appear 20 minutes before the end of the film.
- #010
The 3D version includes an introduction from Floop on how to use the 3D glasses.
- #011
Robert Rodriguez is credited eight times on the film: as writer, director, producer, production designer, editor, cinematographer, composer and visual effects supervisor.
- #012
The opening scene at a closed water park was filmed at Schlitterbahn in New Braunfels, Texas.
- #013
As Juni enters the next level of the video game, he encounters a place called "Rebel Rockets," named after director Robert Rodriguez's two sons, Rebel Rodriguez and Rocket Rodriguez.
- #014
This was Glen Powell's first film.
- #015
In Italy, the film was retitled simply "Missione 3-D: Game Over" ("3-D Mission: Game Over") for its theatrical release, with no reference in trailers or anywhere else to it being a Spy Kids film.
- #016
The film uses various 3D modeling and animation technologies. The spherical form of the 3D modeling seen in some scenes is called NURBS modeling (Non-Uniform Rational Basis Spline). It is an extremely flexible modeling method and can be used for smoothly curved surfaces such as sports car models, but it has limitations and the result must be converted to a different format for further editing. It therefore has limited applications and tends to be used only for things like the metallic blobs Juni brushes and the cream pie filling during the race.
- #017
Robert Rodriguez's son can be seen when Juni enters the OSS shortly after discovering what is happening in "Game Over."
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