Steven Spielberg was attached to this project and wanted Jack Nicholson to star, but dropped out due to his full schedule, soon after which Tim Burton signed on.
Ewan McGregor was cast as Young Ed Bloom when producers noticed the striking similarity between him and pictures of a young Albert Finney, who plays Senior Ed Bloom.
While in the plane, Edward Bloom is reading an English translation book. It is titled "English to Asian".
The Banjo Man is played by Billy Redden who played the boy playing the banjo in Deliverance (1972).
When William and Edward are driving through town on the way to the river, they pass a movie theater that is playing the movie Identity (2003) (with John Cusack).
The breakfast machine that Young Ed Bloom shows off at the science fair is the same machine used in Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985).
Young Edward Bloom is seen wearing a tie featuring a graphic reminiscent of the spiral hill of The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993). Tim Burton picked it out of the tie selection the costume designer offered him.
Young Edward becomes a traveling salesman for a company that sells hands with metal tools as fingers, all held together by a plastic base. The crew were aware that people would draw connections between it and Edward Scissorhands (1990), and therefore purposely did not include scissors in the design.
Director Trademark: [Tim Burton] [music] Danny Elfman score
In the middle of the lettered board in the bank that Norther Winslow robs reads "ROMANS 12:1-2." This refers to the passages in the Bible that says, "Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will."
While Spectre is a fictional town, the ZIP Code shown on the deed to Jenny's house is real. 36104 is one of the ZIP Codes for Montgomery, Alabama.
The television commercial shown while the older Ed Bloom is eating pancakes is, in fact, an actual commercial for Larry Puckett Chevrolet in Prattville, Alabama.
When Young Edward first visits Spectre, the camera pans upwards and we see shoes hanging from a wire above the city. On the left-hand side hangs a pair of ruby slippers, a reference to The Wizard of Oz (1939).
Even though Young Edward lands in Korea, the ventriloquist and his puppet speak in Tagalog (language of the Philippines) while the Siamese twins and Edward speak in Cantonese (a Chinese dialect). The soldiers who pull the ventriloquist off the stage speak Mandarin Chinese (language of mainland China and Taiwan) while the other soldiers speak in Korean.
When Ed Bloom is being given the key to the city, the marching band is playing "The Victors", fight song of The University of Michigan.
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