Fun Factoids

The Bad Guys took six years to make (two to three years of development, three years of production) and required 268,987 individual storyboard panels and a crew of 423 people.

The film used 10 Los Angeles area neighborhoods and one landmark as visual references and inspirations, including the Sixth Street Viaduct Bridge that extends over the L.A. River, Downtown L.A., Mid-City, Miracle Mile, Echo Park/Silver Lake, Pasadena/Highland Park, Elysian Park, Malibu, Santa Monica, Chatsworth and Century City.

The film’s opening diner scene, inspired by Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, is the longest one-shot in DreamWorks Animation history. It lasts two minutes, 25 seconds and seven frames.

Mr. Wolf’s wardrobe went through 25 iterations before his white suit was finalized.

Director Pierre Perifel, producer Damon Ross and composer Daniel Pemberton recorded backup vocals on the film’s end-credit song, “Brand New Day.”

The face on the $100 bank note in the film belongs to DreamWorks Animation president Margie Cohn.

The Bad Guys’ team members’ names are secretly hidden in graffiti in the background of many city shots, as well as on several props. Perifel’s DreamWorks short Bilby pops up as a movie poster in the background of a pet store scene.