Director Tim Burton included scenes in homage to Disney's animated version of the Sleepy Hollow tale (featured in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)). These include the scene in which Ichabod Crane crosses the covered bridge and hears the frogs underneath croaking "Ichabod" and "Headless Horseman," the following chase sequence wherein Ichabod is run down and unhorsed, apparently by the Horseman, and the moment, in the climactic chase-scene, in which Ichabod runs into a tree limb, and, thrown through the air, ends up landing on the Horseman's horse backwards.

Christopher Walken, who...