Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
- Phil Lord, Christopher Miller originally wanted a completely different ending for the film, but test audiences preferred the one we see today.
- Before Bill Hader was cast, several major A-list stars turned down the lead role because they felt the script was too risky.
- The original script for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was written over a decade before production finally began in 2009.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a 2009 American animated science fiction comedy directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, loosely based on Judi Barrett's 1978 children's book. Bill Hader voices Flint Lockwood, a failed inventor on a tiny Atlantic island whose latest creation β a machine that converts water into food β accidentally launches into the atmosphere and begins raining food on his island, making the struggling community a tourist destination. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, in their feature directorial debut, demonstrated the anarchic comic sensibility and visual inventiveness that would later define The Lego Movie and the Spider-Verse films.
The food weather escalated brilliantly from gentle cheeseburger showers to catastrophic spaghetti tornadoes and giant sentient food constructs. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs earned $243 million worldwide on a $100 million budget.
