| 1 | * CastTheRunnerUp: Originally, the two leads (who appropriately spend the movie mixing up their own names) were cast the other way around. |
| 2 | * FakeNationality: The main cast are ostensibly Danish given the setting but they are played by British actors. |
| 3 | * PlayingAgainstType: Creator/GaryOldman and Creator/TimRoth spent much of the 1990s playing hammy villains, so it was a shock for some audiences back then to see them in such a comedy. |
| 4 | * SelfAdaptation: Creator/TomStoppard wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation, and ended up directing it as well. Rather than seeking to keep everything the same, he had no hesitation about making substantial changes, adding new bits to take advantage of the new medium and cutting out bits that no longer worked. He said in an interview that part of the reason he took the director's chair was that it "just seemed that I'd be the only person who could treat the play with the necessary disrespect." |
| 5 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: |
| 6 | ** Creator/JohnBoorman planned an adaptation in 1968 with Irvin Winkler producing for Creator/{{M|etroGoldwynMayer}}GM, who bought the rights for $200,000. He planned for Creator/MichaelCaine and Creator/TerenceStamp to play the leads, Creator/LaurenceOlivier as the Player King, Creator/AlbertFinney as Claudius, and Creator/MaggieSmith as Gertrude. Creator/DonaldSutherland and Creator/ElliottGould also wanted to star but Creator/{{MGM}} never greenlit the movie. |
| 7 | ** Creator/SeanConnery was originally cast as the Player King, but he abandoned the film for a bigger paycheck in ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober''. Creator/RobertLindsay would have played Rosencrantz. |
| 8 | ** Creator/TimRoth suggested Creator/RichardEGrant for Guildenstern. |
| 9 | ** At one stage, ''Music/{{Sting}}'' was going to play Hamlet. |
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