The film portrays Orion as being eleven or twelve years old. In the book, he was closer to six.
The movie Orion watched towards the beginning of the movie, with the trash compactor and recycling, strongly resembles the ending of "The Brave Little Toaster", down to the face on the compactor fed by a conveyor belt.
Werner Herzog's second DreamWorks Animation movie, after Penguins of Madagascar (2014).
The First Dreamworks Animated film to premiere directly on Netflix.
As The Dark takes Orion across the world, you see some great aerial shots of Mt Fuji and Bengaluru (Vidhana Soudha - The state government Legislative Building and the high court).