Lil Rel Howery's 3rd time voice acting in a feature length film, after Luck (2022) and PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie (2023).
Zooey Deschanel's 4th time voice acting in a feature length film, after Surf's Up (2007), Trolls (2016) and Trolls Band Together (2023).
This is the first feature length film with major traditional animation to not be based off already existing animated media under the same format/continuity since The Princess and the Frog (2009) 15 years prior.
Jemaine Clement previously worked with director Carlos Saldanha on 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios' Rio duology as the voice of Nigel the Cockatoo.
Originally intended as a fully CGI film by Sony Animation, but instead became a live action/animation hybrid film with the animation scenes not being done by any studio of Columbia's in particular, with 7 VFX companies from around the world with cgi visual effects.