Hotel Transylvania (2012)
- Before Adam Sandler was cast, several major A-list stars turned down the lead role because they felt the script was too risky.
- The incredible score for Hotel Transylvania was composed in just a few weeks after the original composer dropped out.
- Many of the practical effects used in the climax were achieved without any CGI.
Hotel Transylvania is a 2012 American computer-animated comedy produced by Sony Pictures Animation and directed by Genndy Tartakovsky. Adam Sandler voices Count Dracula, who has built Hotel Transylvania as a luxury resort for the world's monsters โ a safe haven where creatures like Frankenstein, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, and the Werewolf can vacation away from the terrifying humans. When Dracula's overprotected 118-year-old daughter Mavis, voiced by Selena Gomez, encounters Jonathan, a human backpacker who stumbles into the hotel, Dracula must prevent a forbidden romance while concealing Jonathan's true nature from his monster guests.
Genndy Tartakovsky, revered for the animated series Dexter's Laboratory and Samurai Jack, brought his distinctive visual flair โ exaggerated squash-and-stretch animation, dynamic camera movements, and expressionistic character design โ creating the most visually inventive film in Sony's animation catalog. Adam Sandler's Dracula, speaking in an exaggerated Transylvanian accent, was one of his most endearing voice performances. The film earned $358 million worldwide on a $85 million budget and launched a franchise of four films.
