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Trivia: 14-year-old Preston Mutanga animated the Lego segment. The directors had seen a video he posted on Twitter recreating the trailer for this movie from Lego, and wanted to showcase his talent. The universe seen (Earth 13122) is meant to be the same one as in the Lego Marvel Super Heroes games.

Trivia: Josh Hartnett was one of the final 3 actors in the running to play Batman in Batman Begins, but withdrew. He later said he regretted his decision and wanted to work with Christopher Nolan, finally getting his chance here.

Trivia: Cillian Murphy's sixth film with Christopher Nolan, after Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Dark Knight Rises, and Dunkirk.

Trivia: The IMAX prints of the film are 11 miles long, weighing 600lb.

Trivia: Christopher Nolan has stated there are no shots in the movie that were entirely created using visual effects. Visual effects studio DNEG worked exclusively on the movie, and it marked the eighth collaboration between Christopher Nolan and DNEG.

Trivia: Robert Downey Jr. declared this was "the best film I've ever been in" at the UK premiere.

Trivia: During a break from acting, promised to his wife, Matt Damon had one condition: he'd return if Christopher Nolan called. Lucky for him, Nolan offered the role of Leslie Groves, pausing Damon's hiatus.

Trivia: Alden Ehrenreich is one of the few main cast not playing a real person - his character has no name.

Trivia: This film was produced remarkably quickly for one of this scale, with only 3 months for preparation and 57 days of filming.

Trivia: Nicholas Hoult was originally cast as Gabriel. Delays and interruptions to filming meant he was replaced by Esai Morales.

Trivia: The French language version features Pom Klementieff dubbing herself.

Trivia: The actor playing new IMF agent "India Zulu 254" is Alex James-Phelps - possibly a deliberate casting choice given a main character in the series and original film is called Jim Phelps.

Trivia: After a delay caused by positive covid tests, Tom Cruise personally paid half a million pounds for a cruise ship for the cast and crew to isolate themselves on during filming.

Trivia: Final budget was $291m, in large part due to the delays caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, making it one of the most expensive films of all time. Filming was scheduled to start in February 2020 with a planned release date of July 23, 2021. Filming eventually started on September 6, 2020 and wrapped in September 2021 - the film was released in July 2023.

Trivia: There are two credit sequences - one shows a new Guardians line-up: Rocket, Groot, Cosmo, Kraglin, Adam Warlock and Phyla, one of the rescued children. The other shows Peter having breakfast with his grandfather.

Trivia: Quill keeps correcting people that "it's not a trap, it's a face off". After defeating the High Evolutionary they do actually take his face off.

Trivia: Groot's line at the end "I love you guys" was confirmed by James Gunn not to be Groot speaking English, but just to show that we the audience have become close enough to him to have learned to understand his language, as Gamora has too.

Trivia: Administrator Kwol, who gets shot in the leg, is played by Jennifer Holland, who is married to James Gunn.

Trivia: Lylla is voiced by Linda Cardellini, who also plays Hawkeye's wife.

Trivia: Nathan Fillion's third and most significant appearance in a Guardians of the Galaxy film. He voiced a CGI character in the original, and was meant to appear in posters in the background of the sequel, but those scenes didn't make the cut.