Where to watch Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

Trivia & production notes

• Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert began developing the multiverse concept for this film in 2010 after learning about modal realism from a documentary, over a decade before production started.
• The release of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse frustrated the directors because it tackled the multiverse concept they had been working on, and Daniel Kwan eventually stopped watching Rick and Morty for similar reasons during the script-writing process.
• Daniel Kwan discovered he had undiagnosed ADHD while researching the condition for the main character's backstory.
• The lead role was originally written for Jackie Chan, but the directors reconceived the protagonist as a woman to make the husband-wife dynamic more relatable.
• Michelle Yeoh objected to the character being named Michelle Wang after herself, insisting the character deserved her own distinct identity rather than being conflated with the actress.
• Ke Huy Quan was cast after the directors saw a meme showing Andrew Yang as an adult version of his Indiana Jones character Short Round, inspiring them to discover what Quan had been doing since retiring from acting in 2002.
• The Daniels declined an invitation from Marvel Studios to develop the first season of Loki because they were already making their own multiverse project and weren't particularly interested in the offer.
• Principal photography wrapped in just 38 days, mostly in Simi Valley, California, with the fanny-pack fight scene completed in a day and a half.
• The directors assembled a team of eight in-house visual effects artists after having a negative experience with an external post-production studio on their previous film Swiss Army Man.
• Jamie Lee Curtis used her real belly in the film instead of a prosthetic, as she wanted her character to appear as realistic as possible.

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