When Ned Kelly rides to "work" there's a shot where he rides his bike on a long, desolate highway in a big sweeping bend. This highway is the same location as used for the climactic tanker-crash in Mad Max: The Road Warrior.
When Sir John is about to shoot Kelly, Kelly says "Such is life." These were the famous last words of the real Ned Kelly.
Yahoo Serious' wife and co-writer Lulu Pinkus (who also appears in the film as a Hollywood Supermarket check-out) previously appeared in The Last Outlaw (1980) -- a four-part miniseries about outlaw Ned Kelly, whose life and crimes also served the basis for this film.
The two major 'Ned Kelly' comedy movies of the modern era, 'Ned' (2003) and 'Reckless Kelly' (1993), were both made and first released about a decade or ten years apart.
Of the two major 'Ned Kelly' comedy movies of the modern era, 'Ned' (2003) and 'Reckless Kelly' (1993), each featured only one of the Australian bushranger legend's names, they being his first name and his last name respectively.
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