Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)
- The incredible score for Ice Age: Continental Drift was composed in just a few weeks after the original composer dropped out.
- Before Ray Romano was cast, several major A-list stars turned down the lead role because they felt the script was too risky.
- Mike Thurmeier, Steve Martino originally wanted a completely different ending for the film, but test audiences preferred the one we see today.
Ice Age: Continental Drift is a 2012 animated comedy produced by Blue Sky Studios, the fourth installment in the franchise. When Scrat's obsessive pursuit of his acorn inadvertently triggers the catastrophic breakup of the Pangaea supercontinent, Manny the mammoth, Sid the sloth, and Diego the saber-toothed tiger are set adrift on an iceberg and separated from their families. They must navigate treacherous seas and battle a crew of animal pirates led by Captain Gutt, a prehistoric ape voiced by Peter Dinklage, while racing to reunite with their loved ones before the shifting continents strand them permanently.
The film introduced Shira, a saber-toothed tiger pirate voiced by Jennifer Lopez who becomes Diego's love interest, and expanded the franchise's visual scope with ocean-set action sequences that gave the animation team new environments to explore. Nicki Minaj voiced Steffie, one of Manny's daughter's sassy mammoth friends. Ice Age: Continental Drift earned $877 million worldwide on a $95 million budget, the franchise's second-highest gross, with the majority coming from international markets where the franchise remained enormously popular and the Scrat sequences continued to transcend language barriers.
