History Trivia / TheImaginariumOfDoctorParnassus

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $30 million. Box office, $7,689,607 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $61,808,775 (worldwide).]] It was hampered by a very limited release, though its per-screen average was very good. Subverted since the production company stated that the movie already made its budget back before the US release, as you can see how the total worldwide gross doubled the film's budget.

* AllStarCast: One of the most notable recent examples.

* DiedDuringProduction: Creator/HeathLedger's death during production meant that Creator/TerryGilliam had to get creative to finish the film. So he had his character played by different actors when he enters a new dimension.

** After Ledger's death, producer William Vince died only two days after filming wrapped, and Gilliam broke his vertabrae after being hit by a car during post-production, narrowly avoiding both a shutdown and AuthorExistenceFailure.

* SerendipityWritesThePlot: Heath Ledger's tragic death led Gilliam to invent the concept where Tony takes on a different face every time he enters the mirror. Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, and Jude Law all donated their salaries to Ledger's daughter so she could have a trust in her name when she becomes an adult. Gilliam later remarked that the concept worked so well that his editing team were surprised this wasn't the original idea to begin with.

* SerendipityWritesThePlot: Heath Ledger's tragic death led Gilliam to invent the concept where Tony takes on a different face every time he enters the Imaginarium. Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, and Jude Law all donated their salaries to Ledger's daughter so she could have a trust in her name when she becomes an adult. Gilliam later remarked that the concept worked so well that his editing team were surprised this wasn't the concept to begin with.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $30 million. Box office, $7,689,607 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $61,808,775 (worldwide).]] It was hampered by a very limited release, though its per-screen average was very good.

* FakeBrit: The overall cast is quite a diverse example, as it features an American (Creator/JohnnyDepp), a Canadian (Christopher Plummer), an Australian (Creator/HeathLedger) and an Irishman (Colin Farrell) all playing English characters. None of these characters seem to actually come from England, however.

** According to director Creator/TerryGilliam, Heath Ledger frequently went off-script, which inspired Andrew Garfield to do the same.
** Apparently Verne Troyer came up with all the talk about midgets by himself. Considering his stature, it was considered [[NWordPrivileges okay for him to say it]].

* BoxOfficeBomb

* StarDerailingRole: Due to this film's failure, Creator/LilyCole only got smaller roles in movies like ''Film/SnowWhitAndTheHuntsman'', ''Film/TheZeroTheorem'' and ''Film/AbsolutelyFabulous''. It would be unlikely that she will get the female lead ever again.

* DawsonCasting: LilyCole was in her twenties during filming, but her character is 15 for most of it. She even spends some time masquerading as a 12 year old, which she says is obviously not true. It's inverted when Cole plays Valentina's mother as well as Valentina when she's older and has a child.
* FakeBrit: The overall cast is quite a diverse example, as it features an American (JohnnyDepp), a Canadian (Christopher Plummer), an Australian (HeathLedger) and an Irishman (Colin Farrell) all playing English characters. None of these characters seem to actually come from England, however.

** According to director Gilliam, Heath Ledger frequently went off-script, which inspired Andrew Garfield to do the same.
** Apparently Verne Troyer came up with all the talk about midgets by himself. Considering his stature, it was considered [[NWordPrivileges okay for him to say it]].