Trivia / Cyrano

• Acclaimed Flop: The film received positive reviews from critics and audiences, but ended up bombing at the box office, only making back just over a sixth of its $30 million budget.
• Box Office Bomb: Budget: $30 million. Total worldwide gross: $6.4 million. The failure was attributed to the COVID-impacted theatrical marketplace and the fact that musicals still have trouble appealing to mainstream Hollywood audiences.
• The Cameo: Glen Hansard appears as one of the Guards performing "Wherever I Fall".
• Creator Couple: Twofold! Screenwriter Erica Schmidt (who directed and wrote the stage version) is married to Peter Dinklage, while Haley Bennett is the partner of director Joe Wright.
• Cut Song: Roxanne's mourning song "Defenseless" when she moves into the convent.
• Disabled Character, Disabled Actor: Cyrano's lifelong angst about his big nose has been changed to one about dwarfism, and Dinklage has dwarfism.
• Release Date Change: Originally, the film was scheduled to be released on December 25, 2021, but the release date was moved to December 31. It was pushed back once more to January 28, 2022, then finally to February 25.
• Role Reprise:
  • Erica Schmidt wrote The Musical specifically for Dinklage, who reprises the role on the big screen.
  • Bennett also played Roxanne opposite Dinklage in an early incarnation of the Connecticut stage production.
• What Could Have Been
  • In the original stage play by Schmidt (the film's screenwriter), De Guiche sought to atone for Christian's death and paid Roxanne a visit to the convent. Those scenes were shot but were ultimately cut.
  • Some songs in the stage play, such as Marie's warning song and a mourning song sung by Roxanne ("Defenseless"), didn't make it to the silver screen. Schmidt reports that "Defenseless" would have involved a choreography of nuns.

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