Esqua/Trivia

Trivia

 * Esqua is the first non-Universal Animation film since Romeo and Juliet in 1994 to be directed by Michael Wildshill.
 * This is also Wildshill's first solo film since Woo La La in 2009.
 * This is Illumination's first original film since Hop in 2011 and the fifth Illumination film not to be released in the summer.
 * This is the first Illumination film to feature a female protagonist.
 * Esqua is the second Illumination film to be released in March, after The Lorax.
 * Thus, it is also the first Illumination theatrical feature film to be accompanied by a non-Illumination short, in this case, a Universal Animation short.
 * Esqua is the first Illumination film to have its background music score be composed by John Debney and also the fifth film score from that studio to be composed by a recurring Universal Animation composer; the first being Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2, Minions and Despicable Me 3 which were all composed by Heitor Pereira.
 * This is Awkwafina's third voice role in an animated film, after Warner Animation Group's Storks in 2016 and Sony Pictures Animation's The Angry Birds Movie 2.
 * This is also one of the three animated films in 2020 to star Awkwafina, the others being Paramount/Nickelodeon's The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run and 20th/Frenzy's Sunnie 2 (if you count the Canadian releases of both films).
 * Charlie Sheen previously worked with Michael Wildshill on The Workers in 1987.
 * Awkwafina and Sterling K. Brown have previously co-starred in The Angry Birds Movie 2 in 2019.
 * This is Steve Coogan's fifth role for a Illumination film after Despicable Me 2, Minions, The Secret Life of Pets, and Minions.
 * This is the first American produced voice over role by Alicia Vikander.
 * This marks the second Universal animated film to feature Michelle Pfeiffer in a voice role, after previously voicing Tina in Onion Mastori: The Movie in 2005.
 * The third Illumination film to be produced in the 2.35:1 aspect ratio, after Despicable Me 3 and The Grinch.
 * This is the first Illumination film of the 2020s to be produced in 2.35:1 aspect ratio.
 * This is the first Universal animated film of 2020s to be produced in 2.35:1 aspect ratio.
 * This is the first Universal (and Illumination) animated film to have both a theatrical release and a VOD release, due to COVID-19 concerns.
 * It is also only the Illumination film that wasn't delayed before the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
 * It is also Illumination's lowest grossing film to date.
 * This was Cynthia Marion's final film that she worked on before her death of COVID-19 two months later.