Trivia / Bubba Ho-Tep

• Acting for Two: Bruce Campbell also plays the real Sebastian Haff when Elvis reminisces about the day he finally stepped away from it all.
• Actor-Shared Background: Both John F. Kennedy and Ossie Davis were born in 1917.
• Completely Different Title:
  • Serbia: Elvis Presley and John Kennedy Against Mummy
  • Japan: Presly vs. Mummy Man
• Creative Differences: According to Bruce Campbell, the reason he chose not to return as Elvis for the long-delayed sequel is that he and Coscarelli had some major disagreements about the script and Campbell decided to step away from the project in order to preserve their friendship.
• Development Hell: The sequel has languished in limbo for over two decades, reportedly due to a failure to secure proper funding.
• DVD Commentary: An amusing one featuring Bruce Campbell as Elvis, commenting about his thoughts on the film, completely in character.
• The Foreign Subtitle:
  • Italy: Bubba Ho-Tep: The King is Here
• One-Take Wonder: The trailer park explosion was filmed in one take.
• Production Posse: Many of the crew also worked on the films in Don Coscarelli's Phantasm series. Several actors from the series also have small roles including Heidi Marnhout, Bob Ivy, and Reggie Bannister. Coscarelli kept much of the original short story's exposition, but had some difficulty trying to "integrate Elvis' voice".
• Underage Casting: Elvis would have been 67 in 2002 had he lived until then, but Bruce Campbell was only 44 at the time, which is still too young for a retirement home resident even if you don’t believe that he really is the King.
• What Could Have Been: The sequel would've been set earlier in Elvis' life, before he switched places with the Elvis impersonator, where he would've fought vampires while filming one of his movies. It would've featured Paul Giamatti as Colonel Tom Parker and it was claimed in 2009 that Ron Perlman was in talks to take over the role of Elvis from Campbell. After the sequel fell into development hell, Joe R. Lansdale, author of the original novella, would take the ideas for it and use them for a sequel novella entitled "Bubba and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers", which was adapted into a five issue miniseries by IDW Publishing.

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