History Trivia / AsteroidCity

* RealLifeRelative: Both Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson appear in the film. They're married in real life.

* BillingDisplacement: Despite being one of the most important charterers, and arguably the lead, Jake Ryan, who plays Woodrow, is 2nd to last billed, below bit parts like Margot Robbie or Hong Chau.

* DawsonCasting: Creator/SophiaLillis and Ethan Josh Lee were both in their early 20s playing characters around the same age as 14-year-old Woodrow.

* AllStarCast: The cast is full of recognizable actors, including: Creator/JasonSchwartzman, Creator/ScarlettJohansson, Creator/TomHanks, Creator/TildaSwinton, Creator/AdrienBrody, Creator/MargotRobbie, Creator/BryanCranston, Creator/HopeDavis, Creator/JeffGoldblum, Creator/JeffreyWright, Creator/LievSchreiber, Creator/MattDillon, Creator/SophiaLillis, Creator/MayaHawke, Creator/FisherStevens, Creator/EdwardNorton, Creator/SteveCarell, Creator/WillemDafoe, Creator/RitaWilson, and Creator/SeuJorge.

* DuellingWorks: With ''Film/{{Oppenheimer}}'', both being mid-century-set AllStarCast films set in the American Southwest and have nuclear testing as plot elements, as well as make use of both colour and black and white segments for its storytelling, opening within a month of each other.

* DuellingWorks: With ''Film/{{Oppenheimer}}'', both being mid-century-set AllStarCast films set in the American Southwest and have nuclear testing as plot elements, as well as make use of both colour and black and white segments for its storytelling, opening within a month of each other. Although ''Asteroid City'' was well-recieved and made back it's budget, ''Oppenheimer'' is the clear winner as it had the higher gross [[note]]$552.9 million against a $100 million budget for ther latter, $47 million against a $25 million for the latter[[/note]] and higher score [[note]]74% on Website/RottenTomatoes for ''Asteroid City'' vs. 93% for ''Oppenheimer''[[/note]], and that's before mentioning the memetic cultural impact of [[Film/Barbie2023 "Barbenheimer"]] associated with it.

* DuellingWorks: With ''Film/{{Oppenheimer}}'', both being mid-century-set AllStarCast films set in the American Southwest and have nuclear testing as plot elements, as well as make use of both colour and black and white segments for its storytelling, opening within a month of each. Although ''Asteroid City'' was well-recieved and made back it's budget, ''Oppenheimer'' is the clear winner as it had the higher gross [[note]]$552.9 million against a $100 million budget for ther latter, $47 million against a $25 million for the latter[[/note]] and higher score [[note]]74% on Website/RottenTomatoes for ''Asteroid City'' vs. 93% for ''Oppenheimer''[[/note]], and that's before mentioning the memetic cultural impact of [[Film/Barbie2023 "Barbenheimer"]] associated with it.

* DeletedRole: A humorous example in that it happens InUniverse due to [[RealLifeWritesThePlot real life circumstances]], and it's actually an ''added'' character. As noted below, Creator/BillMurray was unable to take part in the movie and was replaced by Creator/SteveCarell. To compensate for this, as soon as production wrapped on the movie, Wes Anderson created a character for Bill to play in a promotional video (seen [[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-missing-bill-murray-part-from-asteroid-city here]]), the InUniverse actor Tab Whitney, who was supposed to play armaments and aeronautics industry mogul named Jock Larkings.