Tideland

To promote the opening weekend of Tideland, director Terry Gilliam shut down the ticket line for The Daily Show (1996). He signed autographs, told jokes and posed for photos with fans, holding a sign that read: "Studio-less Film Maker, Family to Support, Will Direct for Food". "This is the state of independent filmmaking. You have to go out on the street and beg again. We have no shame anymore, we're running around the streets. The first weekend is everything, if the first weekend doesn't go well, you die."

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Terry Gilliam directed Tideland on a very tight schedule, taking a six-month break from The Brothers Grimm (2005). He paused work on Grimm because he and Harvey Weinstein were arguing over the final cut. Because they threatened to pull out entirely, Gilliam began referring to the Weinsteins as the REAL Brothers Grimm.

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Brendan Fletcher was hired to play Dickens before Terry Gilliam had even met him. In an interview, Gilliam said he had seen Fletcher's work on tape and was impressed enough to give him the role.

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The mother of Dell and Dickens resembles Grauballemanden, another bog man from East Jutland.

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The book Noah shows Jeliza-Rose after his first "vacation" contains a picture of Tollundmanden, the bog man found in East Jutland in 1950.

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In the scene where Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Tilly and Jodelle Ferland argue about going to Jutland, a Monty Python record can be seen on the floor.

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This is the second film Terry Gilliam and Jeff Bridges worked on together. Their first film together was The Fisher King.

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The map of Jutland misspells Esbjerg, the port city of West Jutland, as Ebsjerg.

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This is the second film Terry Gilliam adapted from a novel.

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