• The movie leads us to believe the ripper murders occurred relatively within a short amount of time while in reality, the murders occurred over a period of three months (31st August until the 9th of November). The investigation continued for many years.
• The Alan Moore graphic novel on which this film was based contains an epilogue entitled 'Dance of the Gull Catchers'. In it, Moore comments on the spectacle that now surrounds the Ripper murders, with one panel mocking the idea of the book being turned into a movie.
• Commissioner of Police, Charles Warren, never really arrived at the site of the last victim, Mary Kelly, because he had resigned shortly before her murder. Strangely, before his resignation, he ordered that no police officer was to enter the scene until he arrived (which is strange because all of the past victims had been killed on the street) and as a result, no officer or investigator entered the building for three hours because they were unaware of the resignation.
• The first person who signed on to the film was composer Trevor Jones, who stuck with the project since its conception in 1998 and finally composed and recorded his score for the film in early 2001.
• The man who introduces the Elephant Man calls him Joseph Merrick until Frederick Treves "corrects" him, then he calls him John Merrick. Merrick's true name was Joseph, but Treves insisted on calling him John in his reports, deliberately crossing out Joseph. It is not known why Treves did this, but historians now use Joseph, as Merrick called himself.

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