Tangled (2010 film)/Trivia

• Actor Allusion: The lines "Don't freak out!" and "It's complicated" both appear in the same scene. Both lines appear repeatedly in NBC's Chuck, which stars Zachary Levi.
• Development Hell: With a rare Happy Ending.
• Genius Bonus: Word of God says the movie is set around 1780; however, Mother Goethel's dress is a Renaissance-era fashion, hinting at just how long she's been alive.
• Hey, It's That Voice!:
  • Mandy Moore is Rapunzel. So the princess who has her naturally dark hair turned blonde is being voiced by a natural blonde who often darkens her hair.
  • Flynn is Zachary Levi, aka Chuck.
    • So he learned Flynning along with Kung Fu?
  • Ron Perlman voices the Stabbington Brothers, albeit only the one who talks.
  • And Brad Garrett is Hookhand.
  • Richard "Jaws" Kiel plays Vlad AKA the guy who collects little unicorns.
  • And lest we forget that the fabulous Mother Gothel is Donna Murphy, aka Rosie Octavius.
    • That means that Murphy has now played two characters who were done in by a shard of glass.
    • She's also already familiar with eternal youth that hinges on using something over and over.
  • The ugly thug is voiced by Jeffrey Tambor.
  • On the DVD and Blu-Ray, Mark Elliot provides descriptive audio service for blind viewers. Mark Elliot also worked as an announcer for numerous trailers of Disney-owned movies and videos since the mid-80s.
• Ink Suit Actor: Vladimir (the ceramic unicorn collecting thug) was designed to look like Richard Kiel.
• Promoted Fanboy: Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi both grew up on the early 90s Disney Renaissance films. Both have stated that getting to star in a Disney animated film is a dream come true. Being in a Disney movie has also been on Ron Perlman's to-do list ever since he first got into voice acting.
  • In a twofer, Levi said that part of the reason he wanted to do it is so he could be in Kingdom Hearts someday.
• Shout-Out: So many, they have their own page.
• Throw It In: According to an interview with Zachary Levi, the bit where Flynn asks Rapunzel if he'll get superhuman strength in his hand after she healed it was ad libbed.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The main villainess could have been played by Azula and Rapunzel could have been Glinda. No, really.
  • An early pitch entitled "Rapunzel Unbraided" was about two modern teenagers suddenly and magically replacing Rapunzel and her prince, with Rapunzel turning into a squirrel.
  • Flynn was originally intended to be a wayward prince hanging out with a group of bandits. Later on he was a sort of "bandit prince" and leader of a group of rogues (the rogues themselves eventually became the Snuggly Duckling thugs).
  • This concept rendering suggested a brighter, more painterly style than what they're using. It was likely changed in part to work better with 3D.
  • David Schwimmer, Burt Reynolds and John Goodman were all attached at one point.
  • A gypsy and her fortune telling monkey had a scene that would be removed from the film. Oddly, references to it stay in the credits.
  • One of the first clips/test animations shown to audiences suggests the involvement of fairies.
  • In early versions of the story, Maximus was a bloodhound. The makers of the movie apparently kept the dog-like traits because it was funny.
• Working Title: In a rare case, the working title was actually the name of the story the film is based on: Rapunzel. Then it was changed to Rapunzel Unbraided, probably on the day they decided to make it more of a Shrek-style comedy. That idea was scrapped, so it became Rapunzel again. Then they changed it to Tangled presumably to make it more marketable as a Shrek-styled comedy. Although some parts of the world still called it Rapunzel.