Anecdotes

With this film being "shelved" by controversy and not released as originally intended, 2018 marks the first time since 1981 that Woody Allen did not have a feature film released in theaters. In fact, since his directorial debut in Prends l'oseille et tire-toi! (1969), Allen has written and directed a feature film in every single subsequent year except for 1970, 1974, 1976, 1981, and now 2018. So, in the past 50 years, there have only been 5 years in total in which the world has not seen a Woody Allen film released in theaters.

At the end of the film Gatsby cites two lines: "The roaring traffic's boom. Silence in my lonely room." Ashleigh says she knows it, it's from Shakespeare; it's actually from the Cole Porter song "Night and Day."

Timothée Chalamet's maternal grandfather Harold Flender wrote for Sid Caesar in the 1950s, along with Woody Allen. When Allen later cast Timothée in the film, he was initially unaware of the family relation.

Jude Law said in November 2018 that it's "a terrible shame" his Woody Allen movie got shelved. At that time, there was no official release date for the film.

Woody Allen claims in his memoirs "Apropos of Nothing" (2020) that the real reason Timothée Chalamet donated his salary from the movie was that "he needed to do that as he was up for an Oscar for Call Me by Your Name (2017), and he and his agent felt he had a better chance of winning if he denounced me".