Final film of director Marcell Jankovics, released a year and five months after his passing. It is a theatrical re-cut of the Toldi - Movie (2022) television series. This means that both his first and last feature films are adaptations of 1840s Hungarian literary classics. Johnny Corncob (1973) was based on the poem Johnny the Valiant from 1844, while this film was based on the first Toldi book from 1846. The authors of both works, Sándor Petöfi and János Arany were close friends in real life.
The Toldi (2021) series was financed by the Hungarian state. Its production reportedly cost over twenty times the usual annual budget of Hungary's entire animation industry. It was given further funding to be re-edited into this theatrical feature.