Trivia: The real Marcus Luttrell appears several times throughout the movie: he spills the coffee and tells the new guy to clean it up; he's in the operation briefing and shakes his head at the rules of engagement being read; and he's on board the Chinook helicopter when it is shot down.
Trivia: This is Rachel McAdams' third time travel film (she also stars in The Time Traveler's Wife and Midnight in Paris), but her character hasn't time traveled in any of the films, it's always someone else.
Trivia: The person who introduces Leonardo DiCaprio onstage at the end of the film is the real Jordan Belfort.
Trivia: Peter Capaldi, the new Doctor Who for 2014, is listed in the credits as W.H.O. Doctor. Just a fun coincidence, as the roles are too far apart to have been planned, but worth a look.
Trivia: In the beginning of the scene in the Master of Laketown's house, Alfrid tries to empty a chamberpot through the open window. During this, the window half closes, so much of the contents of the chamberpot splash on the inside of the window and windowsill. In the extras of the Extended edition it is told that this happened during the first take, and the scene was reshot many times. Nevertheless, the first take ended up in the final cut. (01:11:35)
Trivia: Tom Hanks is the first actor to play Walt Disney in a mainstream feature film.
Trivia: The bad guys chasing the Presidential limo around with a minigun-containing SUV might seem like movie fiction, but that's actually part of the presidential motorcade - two such SUVs, each containing a Dillon Aero Gatling gun.
Trivia: The waiter who brings Nick to Jordan's table to meet for tea after his lunch with Gatsby is the film's director, Baz Luhrmann.
Trivia: This is the first theatrical movie in which Harrison Ford has played a real person.
Trivia: James DuMont is just six years older than Jared Leto, despite them playing father and son.
Trivia: The Formula 1 cars you see in this film are Formula 3 vehicles with fake F1 bodywork. They were used because Daniel Bruhl and Chris Hemsworth were not allowed to drive real Formula 1 cars.
Trivia: Near the start, Llewyn looks at the back of his album made with Mike Timlin. The biographical information below Mike, however, talks about Dave Van Ronk, the folk singer about whom the movie is loosely based. (00:06:48)
Trivia: This was the first film from a black director to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Trivia: The events of the film are inspired by and loosely based on the real-life "Abscam" - an FBI sting operation during the late 1970's and early 1980's.
Trivia: Ryan Gosling only has 17 lines of dialogue in the entire film.
Trivia: The first entirely English-language film made by acclaimed South Korean director Park Chan-Wook.
Trivia: In May 2024, OpenAI had a voice named Sky that sounded strikingly similar to Scarlett Johansson. OpenAI claimed that the voice of Sky was provided by a different actress, whose identity they did not reveal.
Trivia: Spike Lee had a completed director's cut of the film that ran about 140 minutes in length. However, the studio got cold feet over the film and its dark subject matter, and the producers forced the film to be cut down by over 30 minutes for the theatrical release, much to the dismay of director Spike Lee and star Josh Brolin. (Many sequences of important plot character development were reportedly removed, and even the "single-shot fight sequence" was edited down by the studio) Both Lee and Brolin have expressed frustration by the forced editing, to the point where Spike Lee refused to use his standard unique credit ("a Spike Lee joint") in the film's credits, instead opting for the more generic "a Spike Lee film", as he felt the theatrical cut didn't embody his vision of the film. Brolin has stated that he believes Lee's director's cut is a significantly better film than the theatrical edition.
Trivia: The film crew was using a car they were not familiar with, and it would give a certain beep sound when it was low on fuel. They didn't know why the car was making the sound for the longest time, and it frustrated the crew and actors. Tom Hardy reacted to the beep during one of the phone calls with a curse and slamming the wheel when the beep interrupted him, but they decided to keep the reaction in the movie and make it where he was interrupted by another incoming call. Clever editing.
Trivia: Final film of famed production designer Allan Cameron. Cameron got his start on television, and went on to be well-known for his work in sci-fi, action and fantasy films, such as 1999's "The Mummy," "Starship Troopers," "Willow" and "Highlander." He sadly passed away a few years after the film's release.