- All-Star Cast: Currently, all of the main cast have been Oscars-nominated actors:
- Blooper: The sequence with Tallahassee making a last stand is riddled with continuity errors. Look closely and you'll see that he starts out with a 1911 and a P226, then midway through the fight the Sig changes into a P228, and by the end of it he's dual-wielding two 1911s. The whole scene looked cool, so nobody cares, especially when you consider that having more than two guns on hand would be perfectly in character for Tallahassee.
- California Doubling:
- Hilariously inverted. Pacific Playland is supposed to be in California but is actually Wild Adventures Theme Park
in south Georgia. - Bill Murray's mansion, supposedly in Hollywood? That is in fact 490 West Paces Ferry Road, Atlanta, GA.
- Hilariously inverted. Pacific Playland is supposed to be in California but is actually Wild Adventures Theme Park
- Cast the Runner-Up: Emma Stone was originally cast to play the role of 406.
- Casting Gag: Columbus' expy Flagstaff is played by Thomas Middleditch, who is best known for his role in Silicon Valley as the geeky CEO of a tech company. It perfectly mirrors Jesse Eisenberg's Star-Making Role as the CEO of Facebook in The Social Network
- Creator's Favorite: Woody Harrelson says making this film was the most fun experience of his career.
- Irony as She Is Cast: Unlike his Twinkie-obsessed character, Woody Harrelson is a vegan and a raw foodist. He did not eat Twinkies for the film, he ate fake ones made of corn meal.
- Mid-Development Genre Shift: This was originally imagined as a TV series. However, when all the networks the creators went to shot it down, eventually the creators settled on making a movie out of it. The "Zombie Kill of the Week" is pretty clearly a holdover from the TV idea. Ironically, when the movie was proven a hit, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick were considering in making a TV Spin-Off that never came to be after a failed pilot on Amazon Video, in 2013.
- Playing Against Type: In hindsight, Emma Stone playing a Jerkass (later Jerk with a Heart of Gold) Con Artist is quite different for her.
- Similarly Named Works: The movie has a nearly identical title to the anime Zombie Land Saga, another zombie-centric Horror Comedy satire. The similarities end there, though, as the anime is actually a Deconstructive Parody of Idol Singer tropes, featuring a cast of undead girls forming a pop band to turn Saga Prefecture into a commercial venue.
- Throw It In!: The conversation between Little Rock and Tallahassee about Hannah Montana was a thrown in by Abigail Breslin.
- Some of Tallahassee's most memorable moments, such as using the severed zombie hand to flip off Columbus, were allegedly improvised by Woody Harrelson.
- Bill Murray did not originally have any lines after he is shot by Columbus. The Garfield line was improvised by Murray.
- Uncredited Role:
- Every single actor outside the main cast and the clown zombie are left off the film's credits.
- William Goldman did uncredited re-writes.
- What Could Have Been:
- The As Himself cameo of Bill Murray was originally going to be Patrick Swayze As Himself, and the characters would've referenced Dirty Dancing and Ghost (1990)... alas, he passed away before shooting. Later versions of the script considered Sylvester Stallone, Joe Pesci, Mark Hamill, Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Bacon, Jean-Claude Van Damme or Matthew McConaughey as the celebrity.
- In the DVD extras, it's revealed that Abigail Breslin liked the zombie makeup so much that she asked the producers if Little Rock could become a zombie at the end. They turned her down.
- Jamie Bell was originally cast as Columbus but dropped out. Taylor Lautner was considered to replace him, but couldn't.
- Megan Fox and Evan Rachel Wood turned down the role of Wichita, while Amber Tamblyn auditioned.
- John Carpenter turned down a chance to direct. According to Producers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese, Carpenter was very interested in directing what was then then to be a TV pilot. However, as the project transitioned into a feature film Carpenter withdrew his interest. Although Carpenter loved the script, according to Reese, his schedule would not permit him to the time necessary to direct a full length film.
- Working Title: The film was originally titled Another Day in Zombieland, but the studio feared people would think it would be a sequel.
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