It is Ethan Coen's first film as director made without the participation of his brother Joel Coen; Joel's inaugural solo project was The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021).
Miley Cyrus: as Tiffany Plastercaster. This character is loosely inspired by Cynthia Plaster Caster, an artist who became known for making plaster casts of the erect penises of male celebrities.
The film had originally been slated for release on 22 September 2023, but was pushed back to February 2024 owing to strikes by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and SAG-AFTRA.
The film's title was always intended to be 'Drive-Away Dykes', but the studio, the MPA and advertisers compelled them to alter it. The on-screen title at the film's conclusion is changed from 'Drive-Away Dolls' to Henry James' Drive-Away Dykes.
Cynthia Plaster Caster also inspired a Kiss track on the band's 1977 album Love Gun.
This film marks the screen debut — and first nude appearance — of Savanna Ziegler, who plays the 'Sunbathing Woman'.
Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke shared directing duties, but they never applied to the Director's Guild of America to have both of them recognised as directors because the guild can be peculiar about granting that acknowledgement. For the same reason, his brother Joel Coen was routinely credited as director on all their co-directed films until The Ladykillers (2004), with Ethan listed as producer. As Ethan was already a DGA member, he was given the official director credit on Drive-Away Dolls, while Cooke received a producer's credit.
Pedro Pascal's death in the opening sequence bears striking similarities to his well-known death scene in the صراع العروش (2011) television series. This is likely not a coincidence.
Drive-Away Dolls (2024) (titled onscreen as "Henry James' Drive-Away Dykes") is an American crime-comedy road film directed by Ethan Coen, from a script he co-wrote with his wife Tricia Cooke, who also served as the film's editor; the two produced the picture alongside Robert Graf and Working Title producers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. It marks Coen's first narrative feature without his brother Joel Coen, and is his second solo directorial effort following the documentary Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind (2022). The film is followed by a continuation film Honey Don't! (2025)
