Trivia

This movie has an intermission built into the actual 70mm film reel that counts down from fifteen minutes. It's the first movie to have an intermission since the 70mm roadshow release of The Hateful Eight (2015).

The film was shot entirely in VistaVision, a widescreen format that runs 35mm film horizontally through the camera to create eight perforation film frames, twice the size and resolution of standard four perforation 35mm. The film was then 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 61 years to be entirely shot in the format, the last being My Six Loves (1963). 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."

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.

The marble sequence was shot in the same quarry where Michelangelo carved The Pietà.

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