Trivia: In real life, Georgiana was only nine years younger than her husband, the Duke. She was seven years older than Charles Grey. The film portrays her as being much younger than her husband and closer in age to Charles.
Trivia: The number Emily gives Will is 212-664-7665. Unlike the usual fake "555" number often used in movies, this is a real number that's also used in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and The Adjustment Bureau. Universal Studios acquired it precisely to save having to use a fake number in their films.
Trivia: The name on the delivery van Floss and The Octopus arrive in is "Ditko's Delivery." Steve Ditko is a hall of fame comic artist known for creating Doctor Strange and co-creating The Amazing Spider-Man. In 1994 he was also inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame. Will Eisner is the creator of The Spirit comics.
Trivia: Both Frank Langella and Michael Sheen played their respective roles in the original Broadway production.
Trivia: The costume designer wanted Brad Pitt's suit to look really bad, but to her surprise, she discovered that no matter how cheap or tacky the suit was that he tried on was... he looked good in every single one. She eventually discovered the secret to finally making him look bad was to purposely put him in a suit that had the wrong measurements for his body, and give him gaudy wool ties.
Trivia: Jason's surname "Tripitikas" is a wry reference to the Chinese epic "Journey of the West", on which the film is partially based. In it, the Monkey King is freed from a stone prison by the monk Tripitika.
Trivia: Danny Wallace, on whose book the film was very-loosely based, appears in the Hen Night party scene near the end of the film, standing at the bar just behind Jim Carrey.
Trivia: At one point during the movie, Max visits a storage yard. The name of this yard is "Gognitti Storage". This is a reference to Vinnie Gognitti, who was an important character in the video game series.
Trivia: Despite her prominent billing, Dianne Wiest does not appear until an hour and twenty minutes into the film, and has less than ten minutes of screen time.
Trivia: Although the movie title is "27 Dresses", one of Jane's bridesmaid outfits is actually a man's black suit and tie (pant suit), and not a dress at all. This is shown at the end during Jane and Kevin's wedding. So really the movie should be called "26 Dresses and One Suit."
Trivia: While trying to locate Frank via gps, the techie is told to "hack into military satellites" to find him. There is a quick shot of a computer screen with code, and then it looks back at their faces. When paused on the code, you see the words "Command BitTorrent", which is a reference to BitTorrent, a program commonly used to download movies illegally off of the internet. Kind of ironic. (01:11:30)
Trivia: Some details are taken from Jason Segel's life. For example, the naked breakup is based on a similar incident and he was working on a puppet-based Dracula rock-opera.
Trivia: Keep watching the end credits for an additional scene.
Trivia: When Mauricio and Sarah receive the dress for baptizing a future daughter, they ponder over raising future children as Jewish or Catholics. Mauricio then says, "Who ever heard of Jewish Puerto Ricans?" John Leguizamo, who plays Mauricio, has children who are half Jewish.
Trivia: Though Simone speaks English with an adopted French accent, Stana Katic actually can speak French, and it is one of five foreign languages in which she's fluent.
Trivia: Julia Roberts, who plays Michael's mother, Lisa Taylor, is only nine years older than Ryan Reynolds.
Trivia: The opening scene really was filmed in one shot with no breaks in filming; they rehearsed and had a run-through five times to get it right.