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- Composer Danny Elfman originally wrote the part of Bonejangles, looking for another musician to sing it. Still, after failing to find a voice that fit, director Tim Burton asked Elfman if he would sing it. The result was so brutal on his vocal chords that Elfman was left hoarse whenever he had to voice the character.
- The movie had a 55-week shoot and included 109,440 individually animated frames set up and filmed.
- Multiple identical puppets had to be created so that more scenes could be accomplished in a shorter period. In all, fourteen puppets of the Bride and Victor were made, and thirteen were created of Victoria.
- This movie was based on a 19th-century Russian-Jewish folktale, which Joe Ranft introduced to Burton while they were finishing The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993). This movie began production in November 2003, while Burton was completing Big Fish (2003). He continued with production on his next live-action film, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), which was produced simultaneously with this movie.
- This movie, along with Cars (2006), is dedicated to the memory of Pixar’s Joe Ranft, who tragically passed away in a car accident in August 2005.
- When the dead enter the living world during the wedding dinner of Victoria and Lord Barkis, several old women are reunited with their dead husbands. One of them utters the famous phrase “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn”, from Gone with the Wind (1939). The accompanying music is a brief excerpt from the film’s theme music.
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