Trivia

Filming took place for a total of 34 days between March 16 and May 5, 2023. It was shot in Budapest, Hungary and in Carrara, Italy.

Laszlo Toth was also the name of the man who defaced the Michelangelo statue The Pieta with a hammer.

This movie has an intermission built into the actual 70mm film reel that counts down from fifteen minutes.

The movie was first announced in 2020 with a cast consisting of Joel Edgerton, Marion Cotillard and Mark Rylance as the main characters, alongside Sebastian Stan, Vanessa Kirby, Stacy Martin, Isaach De Bankolé, Raffey Cassidy and Alessandro Nivola. After several delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, half of the cast was replaced in 2022. Joel Edgerton, Marion Cotillard and Mark Rylance were replaced by Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce, respectively. While Stacy Martin, Isaach De Bankolé, Alessandro Nivola and Raffey Cassidy remained in the cast.

The film was shot entirely in VistaVision, a widescreen format that runs 35mm film horizontally through the camera to create 8 perforation film frames, twice the size and resolution of standard four perforation 35mm. The film was the released theaters with 70mm film prints. Though starting with Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) VistaVision has continued to see limited use to create high resolution plates for visual effect shots, this is the first American film in 63 years to be entirely shot in the format, the last being One-Eyed Jacks (1961). Director Brady Corbet explained: "It just seemed like the best way to access that period (1950s) was to shoot on something that was engineered in that same decade."