* AwesomeDearBoy: Creator/EvaMendes wanted to work with Creator/FrankMiller before even seeing the script.
* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $60 million. Box office, $39,031,337. This is Creator/FrankMiller's second-worst box office bomb, surpassed in 2014 by ''ComicBook/SinCity: A Dame to Kill For''.
* ParodyRetcon: During filming and promotion, Miller and co. talked like it was a serious movie in tribute to the comics and Will Eisner in general. Then the movie actually came out...
* StarDerailingRole: Creator/GabrielMacht's attempt to break into the A-list. Bombed miserably, and he's been almost exclusively a TV actor since.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the mid-80s, Creator/BradBird, a professed fan of the comic, created a 3-minute pitch for an AnimatedAdaptation (mainly because he needed something for his demo reel). The pitch made it all the way up to Will Eisner himself, who [[ApprovalOfGod loved both the animation and the spec script Bird had written]], but the major Hollywood studios [[AnimationAgeGhetto couldn't picture it as an animated film]] and the project dwindled.