Characters, cast and crew
Population represented in the film include:

Dolores Fuller (Sarah Jessica Parker) Bunny Breckinridge (Bill Murray) Kathy O'Hara (Patricia Arquette) Criswell - (Jeffrey Jones) Vampira - (Lisa Marie) Tor Johnson - (George "The Animal" Steele)

A film includes cameo appearances from either actors world health organizatiin experienced worked using Wood on Project Niner From either Outer Space. Conrad Brooks (who played one of a risible policemen) appears as a barman, & Gregory Walcott (who played a hero) appears when one of a expected angel of Bride of the Monster. Additionally, Paul Marco, the more risible officer, may be spotted in the background .

This is the exclusively Tim Burton film up to now that doesn't have a music score by Danny Elfman; the soundtrack for Ed Wood was by Howard Shore.

Factual accuracy
Although a film is avowedly stylized & heightened for risible result, virtually all of the cases it depicts come fairly more or less reality, despite their oddness. However, there are occasionally departures from either truth. Wood's relationship by using Bela Lugosi might not stand been when beneficial when a film suggests. Lugosi's boy, Bela Lugosi Jr., has stated in interviews that he considers Wood a parasite who exploited a desperate old man. In a film, Dolores Fuller learns of Wood's transvestitism when reading a screenplay for Glen or Glenda. Actually, she remained unaware until a film was finished. In sequentially to stress Wood's close relationship by having Lugosi, Burton makes it look when though the noted shot of Lugosi picking a flower was filmed outside Lugosi's home. As a matter of fact, a home belonged to Tor Johnson. In a flick, Lugosi's funeral is attended single by Ed Wood & his acolytes. Actually, Lugosi's funeral was easily-attended by his personal & fellow movie star. Wood's meeting by using Orson Welles is invented. Bela Lugosi's relationship using Boris Karloff was far warmer than than a film implies. Tor Johnson is seen at a premiere of Project 9 by using 2 kids world health organization come when zaftig when he is. Actually, Johnson's babies were grown higher at this period.

Origin
Tim Burton dollarfish to directly a Jekyll and Hyde adapation movie, Mary Reilly and was staying in Poughkeepsie, New York when he was approached with an offer to create Ed Wood. There were the total of administrative & artistic problems using Mary Reilly, then Burton decided to abandon a design & to direct Ed Wood instead, on the provision that the script can be written quickly. A script was written around confessedly Ed Wood style. Based on datThe from Burton, A relatively big script (of 140 web sites) was delivered inside record period by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, the writers of the critically derided Problem Child movie series. Alexander & Karaszewski experienced been fans of Wood since it were students and then it was written by owning an enthusiasm non unlike that of Ed Wood himself.

Based in data from Burton (in the book, Burton on Burton), there was a select few karmic significance of his directing Ed Wood around that he was staying in Wood's birthplace at a instance of existence offered a production rights & Ed Wood's cross dressing parallelled a duality of Mary Reilly's Jekyll & Hyde.

A background locate for Ed Wood relied heavy in Nightmare of Ecstasy by Rudolph Grey (ISBN 0922915245), a good-length biography, which draws on interviews from either Wood's personal & colleagues.

Burton and Wood
Burton admits to getting universally been the fan of Ed Wood, which is how come the biopic is filmed sustaining a certain sympathy & admiration like than derision of Wood's function. Burton's respect for Wood is as well hinted at around his film Edward Scissorhands—a director has stated that he named the lead character in the film "Edward" because of its similarity to the title "Ed Wood." A relationship between Wood & Lugosi in the script echoes closely Tim Burton's relationship by having his have idol & 1-old colleague, Vincent Price.

DVD
A DVD edition of Ed Wood initially got difficulty reaching store shelves around North America due to unspecified legal issues. Around February 2004, a DVD was shipped to places, just to exist as recalled over again while forgoing explanation—though occasionally copies quickly detected their way to collectors' venues like eBay. A DVD was eventually freed in October 19, 2004.