Bigweld/Trivia

* Tom Hanks, Danny DeVito, Albert Brooks, Bill Murray, Laurence Fishburne, John Goodman, James Marsden, Justin Long, Jack Black, Jason Lee, Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Nathan Lane, Tom Kenny, Rob Paulsen, Jim Cummings, Kelsey Grammer, the late Ned Beatty, Robert de Niro, Bill Nighy, Christopher Walken and Robert Redford were all considered for the role of Mr. Bigweld before Mel Brooks was cast.
* This is Mel Brooks's first time voice acting in a theatrically released film. Later he'd go onto voice Albert Einstein in Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014), Vlad the Elderly Vampire in the Hotel Transylvania films, and Melephant Brooks the Toy Elephant in Toy Story 4 (2019).