- In the penultimate scene at the Stokes country club, XXXX and his fellow drug dealers are eating a layer cake.
- Guy Ritchie was in place to direct but other commitments meant he had to drop out.
- The warehouse where XXXX meets Eddie Temple is the largest of its kind in the UK.
- The warehouse where XXXX meets Eddie Temple was mostly empty, and most of the crates seen in it were added digitally.
- The actor playing 'Trevor' who originally intended to play Morty but his Liverpool accent was a barrier.
- J.J. Connolly, the author of the Layer Cake novel, wanted to play Lucky in the film.
- The song that plays while XXXX and Morty drive to see Jimmy was intended to be a temporary track until something better was found, but the filmmakers liked it so much it remained in the final cut.
- During the scene in which Gene gives XXXX a handgun, director Matthew Vaughn says on the DVD commentary that XXXX "wants to be James Bond." Daniel Craig (XXXX) was announced as the successor to Pierce Brosnan in the role of James Bond almost exactly one year after this film's original release.
- Marcel Iures plays a Serbian drug dealer (Slavo) yet, being a Romanian actor, he speaks Romanian with his crew.
- The first draft of the screenplay was 408 pages long. The book on which it was based is 344 pages.
- Director Matthew Vaughn is a descendant of Edward Harley, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Mortimer. For several reasons, he is not eligible to be the Earl of Oxford and Mortimer (one of which being the fact that the line has been discontinued and replaced by the Earl of Oxford and Asquith). When charming American girls at a bar in the film, Dexter Fletcher's character Cody tells Tiptoes that he is pretending to be the Earl of Oxford.
- The word "fuck" and its derivatives are said 201 times throughout the film.
- In the opening montage XXXX walks through a pharmacy, in which he imagines all the products are drugs like cocaine and ecstasy, branded with labels such as "FCUK reality". The founder of French Connection (FCUK), Stephen Marks, was the Executive Producer of the film.
- The phonetics ("radio alphabet") "Delta-Uniform-Kilo-Echo" are spoken in sentence over the police band when the "inspector" exits the police car to address the raid team. The phonetics spell the letters D-U-K-E, or "Duke".
- The actor who plays "The Duke" is Jamie Foreman, son of notorious London gang enforcer Freddie Foreman.
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- SPOILER: The original ending, the ending Sony Pictures wanted the director to use, shows XXXX driving off into the sunset with his new girlfriend. The director secretly recorded the alternate ending, showing XXXX being shot by Sidney to the screening audience and ended up using it based on popular vote, stating "It was not like other American movie endings".
- SPOILER: The silenced pistol with which XXXX kills Jimmy is a Chinese Type 67, a very obscure pistol used by the Chinese military and security services.
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