Ico II/Trivia


 * The second Sony Pictures Animation film to be rated PG-13.
 * The reason for the rating is "for sequences of strong violence and intense fantasy action, some strong language, scary images, and brief suggestive content"
 * The third Sony Pictures Entertainment film shown in 1:90:1 aspect ratio in it's IMAX release for the entire film after the original film in 2019 and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021).
 * One of the three Sony Pictures Animation sequels released in 2023 with Araceli II and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
 * It was rumored that this film will be 3 hours long, had those rumors came up to be true, this film would've ended up being Sony Pictures Animation's longest movie of all time as well as the second longest film for Columbia Pictures.
 * Del Toro later stated that these rumors were false with Sony Pictures Entertainment themselves announcing that the film's runtime would be 156 minutes.
 * The ninth Sony Pictures Animation film to become a franchise after Open Season, Surf's Up, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Smurfs, Hotel Transylvania, Angry Birds, Goosebumps, and Araceli.
 * The second SPA film to be entirely filmed on IMAX cameras after Ico (2019).
 * Additionally, like the first film, it'll be specially formatted for it's IMAX release with the aspect ratio opening up to 1.90.1 for the entire film.
 * This film is tied with its predecessor for being the most expensive SPA film of all time as well as Sony Pictures Entertainment's most expensive film of all time along with Spectre.
 * Originally, Rhys Ifans was offered to portray King Harold Wilde but Ifans declined the film due to his commitments to The King's Man and Spider-Man: No Way Home.
 * This is Gary Sinise's second role for a Sony Pictures Animation film after his voice-acting role as Shaw in Open Season (2006).
 * However, this is his first live-action role in a Sony Pictures Animation film.
 * The third Sony Pictures Animation role for Jon Favreau after Open Season (2006) and Ico (2019).
 * Geoffrey Rush's first sequel role in a non-Pirates of the Caribbean sequel.
 * This is the third non-James Bond related Sony film that Daniel Craig is involved in after The Adventures of Tintin and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo both 2011, although Sony distributed the former film internationally.
 * Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, and Noah Schnapp all starred in the Netflix series Stranger Things together.
 * The third Sony film for Hailee Steinfeld after Spider Man: Into The Spider-Verse (2018) and the original Ico movie (2019).