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Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom (2012) follows two 12-year-olds who run away together on a New England island. The film's casting, script and staging choices are covered in the trivia below.

11 Interesting Facts About Kingdom

Interesting Facts (7)

  1. #001

    Wes Anderson put off the beach dance scene until the end of shooting so Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward would know each other well enough to dance without holding back.

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  2. #002

    Dongnae, the city where the zombie outbreak first erupts, is an old name for Busan. The irony is that in another Korean zombie film, Train to Busan (2016), Busan was the safest place in the country.

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  3. #003

    The series was initially planned for 8 episodes, but after the internal premiere drew a positive response, it was cut to 6 episodes and switched to a seasonal format, with production of Season 2 confirmed.

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  4. #004

    Anderson worked on the Moonrise Kingdom script alone for a year and had only 15 pages to show for it; once Roman Coppola came on as co-writer, they finished it in a month.

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  5. #005

    An early draft of the screenplay explained that Sam's parents died after being hit by a drunk truck driver, but the detail was cut from the final film.

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  6. #006

    Kara Hayward did her own makeup for every scene of Moonrise Kingdom, and at the end of shooting she was allowed to keep the kitten her character Suzy owns.

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  7. #007

    The Social Services role was offered first to Alan Rickman and then to Jeremy Irons, both of whom turned it down; the part was then rewritten as female and given to Tilda Swinton.

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Production Story (1)

  1. #008

    Lucas Hedges auditioned for Sam but was not right for the part; Anderson was impressed enough to cast him as Redford instead.

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Behind the Scenes (2)

  1. #009

    The beach dance was shot on a closed set with only Gilman, Hayward, Anderson and the camera operator present, so the young actors would not feel self-conscious.

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  2. #010

    Anderson deliberately skipped rehearsals for Sam and Suzy's first kiss, which was also Jared Gilman's first kiss, so it would stay spontaneous instead of looking like a kiss between experienced people.

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Deeper Meaning (1)

  1. #011

    Anderson said the 1965 setting was chosen at random, though he later tied it thematically to the Scouts as a traditional American institution and took visual inspiration from Norman Rockwell.

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  • IMDb IMDb title page (trivia)

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