The Queen's Corgi
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All team (54)
Short description
Rex is a corgi living in Buckingham Palace, where life with the British monarch has made him the favoured pet and pushed the resident dogs down the pecking order. His arrogance causes trouble, and when he disrupts an official dinner held for the American president, he loses his privileged position. Separated from the palace and left to fend for himself on the streets of London, he has to survive among stray dogs and find a way back to the queen.
The film is a Belgian and French animated comedy directed by Ben Stassen and Vincent Kesteloot, written by Johnny Smith and Rob Sprackling, and produced by Stassen with Caroline Van Iseghem. It sits between Stassen's The Son of Bigfoot and Bigfoot Family, and follows Kesteloot's Robinson Crusoe. Jack Whitehall voices Rex, with Ray Winstone as Tyson and Mari Devon as the Queen. The large cast and crew reflect a full studio production.
Released in 2019, the film took about 36 million dollars worldwide, a modest return for a theatrical animated feature. Audiences were unenthusiastic on IMDb, where it holds 4.9 from roughly 8,600 votes, and mildly warmer on TMDB at 5.9 from about 456 votes. Critics were harsher still, giving it 3.6 from 20 reviews, well below the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- The authors transformed the initially conceived duel between Rex and Tyson into a frantic chase with minimal violence.
- The initially planned scene in which Rex returned to Buckingham Palace with his beloved Wanda was rewritten – in the end, not only the couple, but the entire dog pack showed up at the palace.
- The stunt scene and Rex’s fall down the stairs initially involved him flying out the window and landing directly into the arms of Prince Philip while he was being photographed with members of the royal family. The authors decided to simplify this in favor of other scenes.
- The original script featured six main characters, not four as it ultimately turned out.
- One of the key scenes in the first part of the film was the royal dinner. Initially, the script featured a lavish reception, but this would have been too expensive in terms of animation costs. It was decided to rewrite the scene, turning it into a private reception attended only by the royal couple and the president with his wife.
- The project’s history began in 2002 with a screenplay that John Smith and Rob Sprackling sold to the American studio Montecito. The project sat on the shelf until 2016. Ben Stassen bought it from the studio and then, together with the authors, reworked the screenplay. To finish the script, the team had to wait for the end of the presidential elections in America.
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