Trivia

Elle Fanning and Alex Sharp both perform their own singing for the film.

Nicole Kidman and Alex Sharp rehearsed their scenes in Kidman's dressing room at the Michael Grandage Theatre in London because she was busy finishing the West End run of her play "Photograph 51" which premiered on the 5th of September 2015.

Neil Gaiman's original short story won the Locus Award and was nominated for the Hugo Award.

American DJ James Murphy developed a new genre for the soundtrack, described as "extraterrestrial dance music".

Costume designer Sandy Powell described the film as more of punk-oriented comedy than sci-fi: "It's the 70s again but a different bit of the 70's that Velvet Goldmine (1998) didn't touch".