History Trivia / TimeAfterTime

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: While preparing to portray Wells, Creator/MalcolmMcDowell obtained a recording of Wells speaking, and was horrified to hear that Wells spoke in a high-pitched, squeaky voice with a pronounced Southeast London accent. [=McDowell=] felt would have resulted in {{Narm}} if he tried to mimic it for the film.
* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/MalcolmMcDowell, who thanks to various prior roles generally gets cast as a bit of a psycho nutcase or otherwise amoral type, plays the rather sweet, slightly naive Wells — in a movie with Jack the Ripper. It helps that he does indeed bear quite a resemblance to the real Wells.

** Myer wanted Edward Fox to play UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. Music/MickJagger was also considered, but Meyer couldn't see him convincingly playing a Harley Street surgeon.

** The studio wanted Creator/SallyField for Amy Robbins.

* RealLifeRelative: Creator/NicholasMyer's girlfriend Shelley Hack plays a docent at the museum Creator/HGWells transports into.

* RomanceOnTheSet: Creator/MalcolmMcDowell and Mary Steenburgen would marry and have 2 children together before splitting up in 1990. Steenburgen would later state, "Thank god for that movie, I have kids because of it!"

* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/MalcolmMcDowell, famous for playing {{Evil Brit}}s or otherwise morally shady characters, as a neurotic H.G. Wells.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: While preparing to portray Wells, Creator/McDowell obtained a recording of Wells speaking, and was horrified to hear that Wells spoke in a high-pitched, squeaky voice with a pronounced Southeast London accent. [=McDowell=] felt would have resulted in {{Narm}} if he tried to mimic it for the film.

** Myer wanted Edward Fox to play UsefulNotes/JackThRipper. Music/MickJagger was also considered, but Meyer couldn't see him convincingly playing a Harley Street surgeon.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: While preparing to portray Wells, [=McDowell=] obtained a recording of Wells speaking, and was horrified to hear that Wells spoke in a high-pitched, squeaky voice with a pronounced Southeast London accent. [=McDowell=] felt would have resulted in {{Narm}} if he tried to mimic it for the film.

* RomanceOnTheSet: Malcolm [=McDowell=] and Mary Steenburgen would marry and have 2 children together before splitting up in 1990. Steenburgen would later state, "Thank god for that movie, I have kids because of it!"

* RomanceOnTheSet: Malcolm [=McDowell=] and Mary Steenburgen would marry and have 2 children together before splitting up in 1990.

* DuelingWorks: It came out a few months after another Jack The Ripper-themed mashup, ''Film/MurderByDecree''.

* HeyItsThatGuy: A ''very'' young Corey Feldman as a kid in the museum where the time machine ends up.
** [[Film/{{TRON}} Sark/Dillinger]] is Jack the Ripper!
** Wells is Alex from ''A Clockwork Orange''!
** Amy is Ms. Clara Clayton from ''Back To The Future Part III''.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: While preparing to portray Wells, [=McDowell=] obtained a recording of Wells speaking, and was horrified to hear that Wells spoke in a high-pitched, squeaky voice with a pronounced Southeast London accent. [=McDowell=] felt would have resulted in [[Narm unintentional humor]] if he tried to mimic it for the film.

HeyItsThatGuy: A ''very'' young Corey Feldman as a kid in the museum where the time machine ends up.
* [[Film/{{TRON}} Sark/Dillinger]] is Jack the Ripper!

* [[Film/{{TRON}} Sark/Dillinger]] is Jack the Ripper!

HeyItsThatGuy: A very young Corey Feldman as a kid in the museum where the time machine ends up.

{{Main/TRON Sark/Dillinger}} is Jack the Ripper!

HeyItsThatGuy: