History Trivia / HotFuzz

* RealLifeRelative: The two female Village of the Year judges are played by Creator/EdgarWright's and Creator/SimonPegg's mothers. The DVDCommentary confirms this.

* CreatorChosenCasting:
** Creator/EdgarWright and Creator/SimonPegg wrote the role of Simon Skinner with Creator/TimothyDalton in mind. They shared a thumbs-up when Dalton first played the character in the read-through, as they both knew they'd gotten the perfect person for the part.
** The role of Frank Butterman was written especially for Creator/JimBroadbent.

* NeverLiveItDown: Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg went to Brixton Police Station hoping to get anecdotes from serving officers, even offering to take them to the pub. Every officer turned them down, after the liaison officer had incorrectly told them Wright and Pegg were journalists. They were never forgiven.

** The original script had a Buddhist monk in the town instead of Reverend Shooter. This was no doubt changed because an elderly Church of England vicar was a better fit for the village's rural aesthetic, [[spoiler: but a ''Buddhist monk'' pulling out a pair of guns could have been [[RefugeInAudacity even funnier]]. This is alluded to when the Reverend bellows "Fuck off, Grasshopper!" at Nicholas.]]
** The blond haired boy stood next to Angel at the school, the one who Tim Messenger suggests wears Angel's hat, is called [[MeaningfulName Gabriel]] and he originally had his own plot and backstory. He would have been the grandson of Tom Weaver, the man behind the extensive surveillance system, and the 'leader' of the hoodies that Angel recruits later on in the film. It also would have made the NWA's plans to [[WouldHurtAChild "eradicate" them]] [[HarsherInHindsight a lot darker.]]

** When Angel confronts Skinner the first time, he lists his motive as involving a land ownership scheme involving most of the victims which Tim Messenger had uncovered. Originally the RedHerring was a far bigger subplot, with many scenes of Angel investigating the victims to come up with with that motive for their death. But as this was never meant to be more than a RedHerring, it was felt it padded the movie too much and most of the scenes were cut, reducing the plot a quick montage of Angel decrypting Tim Messengers' typos, and a speech Leslie Tiller gives to Angel shortly before her death, leaving it to feel like Angel sort of came up with the reasons Skinner killed so many people out of nowhere.

* PlayingWithCharacterType: The gag of the main villain[[spoiler:s is that, except for Creator/TimothyDalton, they're all played by old Shakespearean actors and BBC fodder, the last group of people you would expect to be the gun-toting action movie villains. Creator/JimBroadbent normally plays warm avuncular characters, not the BigBad of a murder ring.]]

** The blond haired boy stood next to Angel at the school, the one who Tim Messenger suggests wears Angel's hat, is called [[MeaningfulName Gabriel]] and he originally had his own plot and backstory. He would have been the grandson of Tom Weaver, the man behind the extensive surveillance system, and the 'leader' of the hoodies that Angel recruits later on in the film.