Cayden the Rabbit (2014 film)

Cayden the Rabbit is a 2014 action-adventure comedy film based on the characters created by Joey Drew. The film was directed by Rob Minkoff and written by Craig Wright. It stars Chris Pratt as the voice of Cayden the Rabbit, alongside Billy West, Dwayne Johnson, Keegan Michael Key, Zendaya, Ariel Winter, Ed Helms, Jason Alexander, Ty Burrell, Matthew Lillard, and John Kassir. The plot follows Cayden (voiced by Pratt), a white anthropomorphic rabbit who can run at supersonic speeds, alongside Woody Woodpecker (voiced by West), Bullwinkle (voiced by Johnson) and Rocky (voiced by Key). He teams up with a town sheriff, Karen Sympathy (Winter), to save Angela (Zendaya) from the mad scientist Doctor Apex (Kassir).

Development for a Cayden film began in the 1990s but did not leave the planning stage until Arad Productions acquired the film rights in 2007. Fowler was brought in to direct in 2010. After Sony put the project in turnaround, DreamWorks Animation acquired it in 2011. Most of the cast signed on by August 2012. Principal photography took place between September and October that year in Vancouver and on Vancouver Island. Following the mixed reaction to the first trailer's reveal of Rocky and Bullwinkle's appearance in April 2013, DreamWorks delayed the film release by three months to redesign them.

Cayden the Rabbit premiered at the UK on January 25, 2014, before its theatrical release in the United States on February 14, and received mixed reviews from critics. It set the record for the biggest opening weekend for a animated film in the United States and Canada and grossed $319.7 million worldwide, becoming the sixth highest-grossing film of 2014 and the highest-grossing cartoon film adaptation in North America until it was surpassed by its sequel, Cayden the Rabbit 2 (2016).

A third film, Cayden the Rabbit 3, is scheduled for release in December 2018. A 2D spin-off miniseries Toby Tortoise, starring Thomas Middleditch, is scheduled to premiere on Amazon Prime Video in April 2018.