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Trivia: Tom Hanks was reportedly quite frightened when the film came out, as he feared it would eventually lead to real actors being put out of work. Ironically enough, he later starred in a similarly "photorealistic" animated film with "The Polar Express".

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Trivia: Reportedly, Matt Dillon was considered for the lead part but left the project early in production after seeing test footage, fearing that Square was trying to "replace" human actors.

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Trivia: Early in production, Ryan Whitaker was meant to have a robotic arm as a nod to the character Barrett Wallace from the video game "Final Fantasy VII", who has a gun for an arm, but this idea was dropped.

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Trivia: The first major animated feature film that attempted to create "photorealistic" characters. The studio had the intention of reusing the character models in different films as "digital actors," where they could "play" different parts like a real actor. However, the film underperformed at the box office and this idea was quietly dropped.

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