Stories from the set

At the 63rd minute of the film, Michelle Pfeiffer looks young in the mirror, although she should already look old, as she did a minute earlier, since she has already lost her energy.

The film is based on Neil Gaiman's novel "Stardust" (1998).

Sarah Michelle Gellar turned down the lead female role offered to her in order to be able to spend more time with her husband, Freddie Prinze Jr.

Alex Pettyfer auditioned for the role of Tristan Thorn.

The last film of the famous British actor Mark Burns, who played the role of the bishop. He died on May 8, 2007, three months before the premiere of "Stardust."

The rights to adapt Neil Gaiman's fairy-tale novella were originally acquired by Miramax Films back in the autumn of 1998. For some time the project was in development, but no real steps were taken, and after the rights expired they reverted to the author.

For a long time, Terry Gilliam and Matthew Vaughn were the two main contenders for the director's chair. The former declined the offer because he had just finished filming "The Brothers Grimm" (2005) and did not want to commit to another fairy-tale project. Matthew Vaughn was at that time busy working on the British film "Layer Cake" (2004), and was later due to begin filming the comic-book movie "X-Men: The Last Stand" (2006).

Shortly after Matthew Vaughn unexpectedly dropped out of work on "The Last Stand", negotiations between him and Neil Gaiman resumed, as a result of which the author granted the rights to the future adaptation completely free of charge. The writer's decision was largely based on the fact that he trusted Matthew Vaughn not only as a friend, but also as a man who always keeps his word, which, in Gaiman's opinion, is a great rarity in Hollywood.

After a preliminary discussion of the future film with Matthew Vaughn, Neil Gaiman felt that the director would handle the staging of the adventure and action scenes excellently, but needed help with the romantic side of the story. In order to complement his style and better convey all aspects of the fairy-tale novella, Neil Gaiman introduced Matthew Vaughn to screenwriter Jane Goldman, and the two of them set to work on the screenplay.

In the film, each of the three witches has her own name, whereas in the book they are called by the collective name Lilim and have no individual names. They are named Lamia, Morpho and Empusa after the bloodthirsty demonic creatures of Greek mythology.