History Trivia / EdWood

** Ed and Dolores moved out of their house after not paying the rent. Dolores decided to go live with her mother, while Ed has to stay at Bella's house. They talked about bad decisions and hoped that ''Bride of the Monster'' would make a comeback on Bella's career.

** Ed visits Tor Johnson's house for dinner and introduces his family. Ed and Tor talk about the break up he had with Doloris Fuller.

* PlayingAgainstType: An oddly specific example in Creator/MauriceLaMarche, who dubbed over the physical performance of Creator/VincentDOnofrio as Creator/OrsonWelles. [=LaMarche=] has become legendary for his countless lampoonings of Welles, but this is so far the only time he's ever played him straight.[[note]]It recalls Rich Little playing Creator/JohnnyCarson for ''The Late Shift''.[[/note]]

** Originally the film was written as a miniseries, with Michael Lehmann attached as director as Tim Burton as executive producer. During development it was changed to being a film, and Lehmann and Burton swapped roles. Initially the screenplay tried to keep as much of the story from the miniseries as possible, which resulted in earlier drafts being so long that it would have made for a three-hour film, but it was eventually pared down to get the 127-minute running time of the end product.

* AcclaimedFlop: Won two Oscars and was critically loved, but made little over $5,9 million (on an $18 million budget).[[note]]Ironically, the film cost more than all of the real Creator/EdWood's films combined.[[/note]]

* AcclaimedFlop: Won two Oscars and was critically loved, but made little over $5 million (on an $18 million budget).[[note]]Ironically, the film cost more than all of the real Creator/EdWood's films combined.[[/note]]

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $18 million. Box office, $5.9 million. This was Creator/TimBurton's first film to not do well at the box office. It was also the very last movie released while Jeffrey Katzenberg was still on distributor Disney's lot; he left the lot and ended his involvement with the studio the next day. The film did win an Oscar though (Best Supporting Actor for Martin Landau's performance as Creator/BelaLugosi).

* ColbertBump: Unsurprisingly, the film helped the films of the real Ed Wood gain significantly more popularity in the mainstream (and even a significant LGBTFanbase) after they'd only been known in small circles of b-movie enthusiasts.

* CanonDiscontinuity: The films Creator/EdWood made during this time period without Creator/BelaLugosi were deliberately excluded.

!!Trivia for the [[Creator/EdWood creator]]:
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* DevelopmentHell: ''Film/NightOfTheGhouls'' was shot in 1959 but didn't get a release til 1984 when a studio paid for the lab bill. Wood also toiled on a book, ''Hollywood Rat Race'', in the early 60's, but didn't get a release til a publisher took the unfinished manuscript and released it in 1998.
* NoBudget: Basically his entire filmography was this ,[[UpToEleven and boy did it show]].

* CreatorRecovery: At the time, Creator/JohnnyDepp was depressed about films and filmmaking. By accepting this part, it gave him a "chance to stretch out and have some fun", and working with Martin Landau, "rejuvenated my love for acting".

* RealLifeRelative: Averted. Martin Landau stars and his daughter [[Creator/JulietLandau Juliet]] plays Loretta King, but the two aren't related in-universe.

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* ActorAllusion: Tor Johnson, a professional wrestler turned actor, is played here by professional wrestler [[Wrestling/GeorgeSteele George "The Animal" Steele]].

* CastTheExpert: See Actor Allusion, above.

* PlayingAgainstType: An oddly specific example in Creator/MauriceLaMarche, who dubbed over the physical performance of Vincent D'Onofrio as Creator/OrsonWelles. [=LaMarche=] has become legendary for his countless lampoonings of Welles, but this is so far the only time he's ever played him straight.[[note]]It recalls Rich Little playing Johnny Carson for ''The Late Shift''.[[/note]]

* RealitySubtext: Tim Burton agreed to do this movie when he saw how much Wood's relationship with his childhood horror movie hero Bela Lugosi reminded him of his own relationship with his childhood horror movie hero Creator/VincentPrice.

* SerendipityWritesThePlot: Why is the film shot in black and white? To evoke the kind of low-budget aesthetic Wood himself was infamous for? Probably; but it was actually because nobody working on the film had seen Bela Lugosi's one color picture: "Scared to Death" and thus did not know what he looked like in color.

* SerendipityWritesThePlot: Why is the film shot in black and white? To evoke the kind of low-budget aesthetic Wood himself was infamous for? Probably; but it was actually because nobody working on the film had seen Bela Lugosi's one color picture: "Scared to Death."

* SerendipityWritesThePlot: Why is the film shot in black and white? To evoke the kind of low-budget aesthetic Wood himself was infamous for? Probably; but it was actually because nobody working on the film knew what Bela Lugosi looked like in color.