History Trivia / TickTickBoom

* FakeAmerican: Andrew Garfield continues his long tradition of playing American-accented characters.

* DoingItForTheArt: The production went to great efforts to recreate both the Moondance Diner and Jonathan's apartment at 508 Greenwich Street; in the case of the latter, even getting their hands on several of his real possessions. Adam Pascal, Daphne Ruben-Vega and Wilson Jermaine Heredia described the recreation of the apartment as particularly surreal, since they had visited it many times in preparation for ''{{Theatre/Rent}}''.

** "Green Green Dress" was filmed as a fully-choreographed number, but Miranda cut it when he realized it slowed the pace of the film.

* DeletedScene: The original assembly cut of the ran 2 hours and 20 minutes, whereas the finished film (minus credits) runs 1 hour and 50 minutes due to Miranda's desire to tighten the pace. As a result, quite a lot of material was left on the cutting room floor.

* DeletedScene:

** Lauren Marcus plays a character named "Donna" whom WordOfGod says is based on Larson's friend Victoria Leacock Hoffman. Leacock Hoffman was known for filming Larson with her own Betacam, footage of which appears in the end credits and is recreated in the film, with Donna often seen following Jonathan around with her camera. Donna's prominent presence in several scenes despite only having one line in "Boho Days" and never being named onscreen suggests the part was trimmed down in editing: Marcus posted on her Instagram [[https://www.instagram.com/p/CVqe3g0PITG/ a behind the scenes image]] of a shot focused on Donna handing out playbills at New York Theatre Workshop, and in [[https://www.instagram.com/p/CWYncb7gpQ9/ another post]] heavily implied her role was cut down.

** Lauren Marcus plays a character named "Donna" whom WordOfGod says is based on Larson's friend Victoria Leacock Hoffman. Leacock Hoffman was known for filming Larson with her own Betacam, footage of which appears in the end credits and is recreated in the film, with Donna often seen following Jonathan around with it. Her prominent presence in several scenes despite only having one line in "Boho Days" and never being named onscreen suggests the part was trimmed down in editing: Marcus posted on her Instagram [[https://www.instagram.com/p/CVqe3g0PITG/ a behind the scenes image]] of a shot focused on Donna handing out playbills at New York Theatre Workshop, and in [[https://www.instagram.com/p/CWYncb7gpQ9/ another post]] heavily implied her role was cut down.

** Lauren Marcus plays a character named "Donna" whom WordOfGod says is based on Larson's friend Victoria Leacock Hoffman. Leacock Hoffman was known for filming Larson with her own Betacam, footage of which appears in the end credits and is recreated in the film, with Donna often seen following Jonathan around with it. Her prominent presence in several scenes despite only having one line in "Boho Days" suggests the part was trimmed down in editing: Marcus posted on her Instagram [[https://www.instagram.com/p/CVqe3g0PITG/ a behind the scenes image]] of a shot focused on Donna handing out playbills at New York Theatre Workshop, and in [[https://www.instagram.com/p/CWYncb7gpQ9/ another post]] heavily implied her role was cut down.

** Lauren Marcus plays a character named "Donna" whom WordOfGod says is based on Larson's friend Victoria Leacock Hoffman. Leacock Hoffman was known for filming Larson with her own Betacam, footage of which appears in the end credits and is recreated in the film, with Donna often seen following Jonathan around with it. Her prominent presence in several scenes despite only having one line in "Boho Days" suggests the part was trimmed down in editing: Marcus posted on her Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/CVqe3g0PITG/ a behind the scenes image] of a shot focused on Donna handing out playbills at New York Theatre Workshop, and in [https://www.instagram.com/p/CWYncb7gpQ9/ another post] heavily implied her role was cut down.

* DeletedScene: "Green Green Dress" was filmed as a fully-choreographed number, but Miranda cut it when he realized it slowed the pace of the film.

** Jordan Fisher was meant to appear for a brief scene but [[https://twitter.com/Lin_Manuel/status/1471139261625819142?s=20 the day of shooting]] ended up being the same as his wedding day. Ultimately, the scene was cut due to time.

* MissingTrailerScene: In the trailer, Michael asks Jon at their apartment whether he's acting out of love or fear, with Jon comically replying that he's acting out of fear 100%. In the movie proper, Michael asks this question at the diner Jon works at, and while Jon doesn't directly answer him there, he later tells Susan that he's acting out of love. Completely lacking context, Susan can only reply with a [[FlatWhat "What?]]

* WriterRevolt: David Auburn, playwright of the off Broadway version, felt knowing about Jonathan's impending death cheapened the effect of the story on stage. Lin-Manuel Miranda however felt that audiences unfamiliar with him should be "on the same page" as the filmmakers about his ticking clock - resulting in the documentary style BookEnds contextualising his career.

* NoStuntDouble:For the swimming scenes, a body double was hired to be Jonathan whenever Andrew Garfield's face wasn't onscreen. However, Andrew's father was actually a swim instructor and it turned out that Andrew could swim better than the body double could, so he just did all the swimming scenes himself. Andrew's dad was originally going to be the man swimming slowly in front of Jonathan but it didn't quite work out.