''The Royal Hotel'' is the most common pub name in Australia according to publicity for this movie.
On a location recce to one working hotel the production was considering during an eight hour drive from Adelaide, director Kitty Green and the other location scouts spotted an abandoned pub that, while just north of Adelaide, stood alone in the midst of a barren landscape. This was the Yatina Hotel which became the Royal Hotel in the movie.
The film is inspired by the feature documentary film Hotel Coolgardie (2016) which was first released about six years earlier.
The first ever feature film to shoot in the South Australian country town of Yatina.
The South Australian country town of Yatina, which is this movie's central filming location, has a population of just nine people.