Bolt (2008)
- The original script for Bolt was written over a decade before production finally began in 2008.
- During the filming of Bolt, John Travolta improvised one of the most famous lines in the movie.
- The incredible score for Bolt was composed in just a few weeks after the original composer dropped out.
Bolt is a 2008 American animated comedy adventure produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and directed by Chris Williams and Byron Howard. John Travolta voices Bolt, a white German Shepherd who has been raised on the set of a television show in which he plays a superpowered dog, and who believes his fictional abilities โ super bark, heat vision, and invulnerability โ are real. When Bolt is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood studio to New York City in a box, he must cross the country to reunite with his beloved owner Penny, played by Miley Cyrus, accompanied by a cynical alley cat named Mittens and a starstruck hamster named Rhino.
Bolt was the first film produced under John Lasseter's creative leadership of Walt Disney Animation Studios following Pixar's acquisition, and it signaled the quality improvement that would culminate in Tangled, Frozen, and Zootopia. Bolt earned $309 million worldwide on a $150 million budget.
