Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
- During the filming of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, the director famously rewrote the ending on the fly after seeing the incredible chemistry between the lead actors on set.
- The lead role in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish was originally offered to a massive A-list star who turned it down because they didn't understand the script.
- If you look closely during the crowded sequence in the second act of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, the original author of the source material makes a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo.
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is a 2022 American animated adventure comedy produced by DreamWorks Animation, directed by Joel Crawford. Antonio Banderas returns to voice Puss in Boots, the swashbuckling feline who discovers he has used up eight of his nine lives and is now on his last one. Terrified of death for the first time — personified as a whistling, hooded wolf voiced by Wagner Moura — Puss sets out to find the mythical Wishing Star to restore his lost lives, competing against Goldilocks and the Three Bears crime family and the obsessive fairy tale collector "Big" Jack Horner.
The Last Wish was a creative revelation that shocked audiences who expected a routine animated sequel, delivering instead one of the most visually innovative and emotionally mature animated films in years. The animation style blended traditional CG with a painterly, storybook aesthetic inspired by Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse's visual innovations, using lower frame rates and bold brushstroke textures to create imagery unlike anything previously seen in the Shrek universe. The Wolf, Death's physical avatar who stalks Puss throughout the film, was one of the most genuinely menacing animated villains in recent memory.
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish earned $484 million worldwide and received the Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature.
