Finding Dory - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[harry]

Although it is not intentionally evil, the giant squid is still a larger threat to Dory and Marlin in comparison to the truck drivers and police officers.

[wesley]

Hank is an octopus, and therefore he can survive out of water for some time, squirts ink when he's scared, and can change color for camouflage. Hank's behavior is actually very similar to that of a real-life octopus: octopi are notoriously hard to keep in captivity, as they are intelligent escape artists that are known to leave their tanks and wander around on land. His camouflage ability not only has him changing color, but also his shape: a technique used by real-life octopi (especially the mimic octopus) to escape predators or mimic more dangerous animals for defense.

[scarlett]

The ending of the film was rewritten after the creators saw the documentary Blackfish, which advocates against the treatment of animals in marine parks. Louie Psihoyos: After seeing Blackfish, they retooled the film so that the sea creatures now have the choice to leave that marine park. They told Gabriela [Cowperthwaite] they didn't want to look back on this film in 50 years and have it be their Song of the South. The "Sleep-swimming" scene from the teaser was originally part of the movie and was much longer. In original versions of the movie, all of Dory's flashback sequences were part of one single scene which would've told all of her backstory at the beginning of the movie, but after a test screening, they decided to tell her backstory through flashbacks over the course of the movie. Originally Dory's parents would've suffered from short term memory loss, which would make Dory's line that her memory loss runs in the family as a fact, but this was changed as Andrew Stanton realized it could be frustrating to have all of Dory's family forget what each other said through the movie. There was originally a "Parents School Day" sequence, in where Dory was going to start feeling nostalgic for her family. While the Tank Gang do show up in the movie as part of the after-credits scene, they originally had a bigger role, where they would've encountered Dory, Marlin and Nemo after escaping the giant squid and they would have helped Nemo and Marlin to rescue Dory from the Institute. Why this didn't end up happening in the final film hasn't been revealed, but is believed by fans to be because Stanton is saving the Tank Gang's storyline for the third film. Hank at one point was going to have an obsession for hot sauce. Bailey at one point was going to be female and Destiny's sister, and the sisters would have been on bad terms before they reconcile at the end. Destiny was originally a killer whale instead of a whale shark; This was most likely changed due to the aforementioned Blackfish influence. Adding to that, Destiny was originally going to be Dory's "adopted sister" (how that would have worked out is anyone's guess), but the script was rewritten to make them just childhood friends instead. The giant squid originally had dialogue trying to lure Dory into his clutches by pretending to be her uncle. In January 2013, while on Ellen's show to promote Struck by Lightning, Chris Colfer was in Squee! over the film finally being announced, and practically begged for a part even if it was just a one scene gag. Referencing a line from the first film when Dory mumbles "sea monkey has my money..." in her sleep, Colfer pitched a scenario where Dory encounters said sea monkey.

[bernard]

This movie was originally scheduled to be released on November 25, 2015. After Pixar's other movie, The Good Dinosaur (2015), was pushed back to that date, this movie was pushed back as well.