40 Fun Facts About Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel

In FAQ About Time Travel, which part of the pub hides the time leak the three friends stumble through?

The men's toilets hold the rift, a setting so mundane that writer Jamie Mathieson said watching its taps filmed in close-up was the moment the shoot felt real.

In FAQ About Time Travel, what are the agents from the future who kill artists at their creative peak called?

Editors, in Cassie's warning, eliminate artists at their peak to preserve cultural standards, and one of them turns out to be hunting the three men in the pub.

What does a badly wounded Ray spill on the fateful notebook page to reset the timeline in FAQ About Time Travel?

Beer, fittingly for a story set almost entirely in a pub, makes the page illegible and snaps the three men back to the start of their night with their memories intact.

Writer Jamie Mathieson gave FAQ About Time Travel's three male leads a model of which screen time machine?

A DeLorean went to each actor to mark the start of shooting, and Mathieson later found Dean Lennox Kelly using his, still boxed, to prop open a dressing-room door.

Which star of the Scary Movie films plays Cassie, the woman from the future, in FAQ About Time Travel?

Anna Faris, top-billed when the project was announced, joined the shoot later than her three male co-stars, who had already begun filming without her.

The production office of FAQ About Time Travel stood on 007 Drive, a road inside which famous British film studio?

Pinewood Studios hosted the shoot, and writer Jamie Mathieson noted that his road crossed Goldfinger Avenue on a lot that felt more like a factory than a dream palace.

What do Ray, Pete and Toby write on a page of Toby's notebook in FAQ About Time Travel?

A letter to Hollywood, mocking bad films, is the evening's joke, until the three men suspect that this scrap of paper is the reason somebody wants them dead.

The poster for FAQ About Time Travel copies the lead actors' pose from the posters of which film series?

Back to the Future also shaped the script: writer Jamie Mathieson listed the series among his influences, beside Philip K. Dick, Terry Pratchett and Frasier.

Chris O'Dowd, who plays the sci-fi fan Ray in FAQ About Time Travel, was already known as Roy in which sitcom?

The IT Crowd, a Channel 4 comedy that ran from 2006 to 2010, made him famous as Roy Trenneman, so the show was still on air when the time-travel comedy reached cinemas.

In FAQ About Time Travel, which job has Ray just been fired from before his night out with Pete and Toby?

Theme park guide was Ray's job until his sacking, and the film's publicity paints all three men as stuck in dull work with no prospects.

How far into the past does the first trip through the time leak take the friends in FAQ About Time Travel?

Thirty minutes is all the pub's rift manages at first, just far enough for the three men to run into earlier versions of themselves and risk a paradox.

When Cassie says she is from the future in FAQ About Time Travel, what does Ray assume is really going on?

A prank by his friends is Ray's first guess, because his obsession with the subject is so well known; Pete and Toby deny having any part in it.

The pale blue outline lettering of FAQ About Time Travel's opening credits copies which comic-book film series?

Superman supplied the look: the titles appear against a backdrop of outer space, a grand entrance for a comedy that then barely leaves one British pub.

Which American cable network's film arm co-produced FAQ About Time Travel with BBC Films?

HBO Films, the American network's film arm, shared the production with BBC Films, and the writer's blog named both backers while the cameras were still rolling.

Whose power ballad Total Eclipse of the Heart is heard on the soundtrack of FAQ About Time Travel?

Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh singer, released the Jim Steinman song in 1983, and it joins several other 1980s chart hits on the comedy's soundtrack.

FAQ About Time Travel writer Jamie Mathieson later scripted four Doctor Who episodes for which actor's Doctor?

Peter Capaldi's Doctor starred in all four, starting with Mummy on the Orient Express and Flatline in 2014; a later one was co-written with showrunner Steven Moffat.

Dean Lennox Kelly, the cynical Pete of FAQ About Time Travel, was known as Kev Ball in which Channel 4 series?

Shameless kept him until the start of its fourth series, when he left alongside Maxine Peake, who played his on-screen girlfriend.

At the end of FAQ About Time Travel, Cassie steps out of a portal and leads the three men into what?

A parallel universe awaits after she warns that the damage to time is spreading and that the group has fourteen hours to save the world.

How did Jamie Mathieson earn his living for six years before FAQ About Time Travel went into production?

Stand-up comedian was still his trade in the spring of 2006; by that autumn he had an office at a film studio and a first script about to be shot.

Which British newspaper's critic called FAQ About Time Travel the worst film of the week on its release?

The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw was the harshest voice in a mixed reception; Empire, by contrast, found the comedy quirky and engaging.

In FAQ About Time Travel, the second time traveller Millie introduces herself by claiming to be Cassie's what?

Mentor is only her cover story: Millie has really been sent to kill the three men at the moment of their greatest potential.

In FAQ About Time Travel, Pete glimpses a massacre at the pub; what marks out the other Pete he sees there?

A beard sets the other Pete apart, and the vision of slaughter is what finally shakes the group's resident cynic out of his disbelief.

During their jumps through time in FAQ About Time Travel, the three men find the pub hosting a party themed around what?

Their future selves are the costume theme, a hint that three ordinary pub regulars will one day matter far more than they imagine, and the party is where they meet Millie.

In FAQ About Time Travel, what does Toby assume Ray is doing when Ray describes meeting Cassie?

Pitching a film plot is all Toby hears, a natural mistake for the member of the trio whose great obsession is cinema.

Empire's review said FAQ About Time Travel sometimes stumbles into the territory of which cult TV comedy?

Red Dwarf came to the reviewer's mind because the action is split between a pub and the future, though he still praised the script as smart.

Marc Wootton, the geeky Toby of FAQ About Time Travel, became Mr Poppy in which British family film series?

Nativity! reached cinemas the same year as the pub comedy and cast him as an unruly classroom assistant, the role he is now best known for.

Chris O'Dowd went from FAQ About Time Travel to playing Officer Rhodes in which hit American comedy?

Bridesmaids, released two years after the pub comedy, cast him as the policeman who pulls over Kristen Wiig's Annie and ends up winning her heart.

Eskimo Disco cover which rock anthem by the Swedish band Europe on the FAQ About Time Travel soundtrack?

The Final Countdown became a global hit in 1986 even though the band doubted it, finding it unlike their earlier, more aggressive guitar sound.

Which vocal group's hit version of Rivers of Babylon features on the soundtrack of FAQ About Time Travel?

Boney M. turned a 1970 song by the Jamaican reggae group the Melodians into one of the best-selling singles in British chart history.

After Cassie says the time leak is fixed in FAQ About Time Travel, the three men enter which version of the pub?

A post-apocalyptic ruin greets them, proof that her repair has not held, and it is here that Pete slips away through the rift alone, returning dishevelled and traumatised.

At the end of FAQ About Time Travel, what does Cassie claim she and Ray are in another timeline?

They are a couple in that other timeline, she claims, which answers a question the film's own publicity poses: whether Ray can win over the woman from the future.

Dean Lennox Kelly, who plays Pete in FAQ About Time Travel, portrayed which playwright in an episode of Doctor Who?

William Shakespeare was his role in a story set in 1599 at the Globe Theatre, which makes the film's great time-travel sceptic a man who has met the Doctor.

Writer Jamie Mathieson and actor Dean Lennox Kelly of FAQ About Time Travel both worked on which BBC supernatural drama?

Being Human, the flatshare drama about a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost, cast Kelly as a werewolf named Tully in 2009 and then hired Mathieson to write for its second series.

The Daily Mirror's verdict on FAQ About Time Travel was that the engaging comedy felt like a stretched-out what?

TV pilot was the comparison, yet the review was a kind one, finding enough laughs to make a refreshing change from the usual British film fare.

FAQ About Time Travel's writer cited which tea-loving Hitchhiker's Guide hero as his model of an ordinary man?

Arthur Dent, hunting for a decent cup of tea aboard a starship, was Jamie Mathieson's example of what he called kitchen sink fantasy: everyday worries colliding with the cosmic.

Which director of TV's The Smoking Room made FAQ About Time Travel, his last film before his death in 2010?

Gareth Carrivick let his writer sit in on rehearsals and reshape scenes with the cast, a freedom Jamie Mathieson called his best working experience as a writer.

Which Canadian co-creator of Baroness von Sketch Show plays Millie, the second time traveller in FAQ About Time Travel?

Meredith MacNeill spent the 2000s in British comedy, including the sketch show Man Stroke Woman, before going home to Canada and winning eight Canadian Screen Awards.

When FAQ About Time Travel was cast, Marc Wootton was best known for playing which comic alter ego?

Shirley Ghostman, a parody of television mediums, had a BBC Three series of his own, which was shelved after an in-character chat-show appearance drew more than 350 complaints.

Chris O'Dowd, the Ray of FAQ About Time Travel, later created which sitcom drawn from his Irish childhood?

Moone Boy, made for Sky, follows a twelve-year-old and his imaginary friend in Boyle, County Roscommon, the town where O'Dowd himself was born and raised.

Which Eurovision-winning British group's hit The Land of Make Believe is heard in FAQ About Time Travel?

Bucks Fizz won the contest in 1981 with Making Your Mind Up, and the song used in the film was another of the group's three British number ones.