- Billing Displacement: Matthew McConaughey is billed first but Christian Bale is the main character.
- California Doubling: The London scenes were filmed in Dublin. Dublin was doublin'!
- Creator Killer: Dream Quest Images (renamed The Secret Lab) was set ablaze by the failure of this film and closed down the next year. Their assets would be either sold off or absorbed into Disney's theatrical animation branch.
- Dyeing for Your Art: Christian Bale starved himself in an attempt to look as underfed as his character. However after seeing Matthew McConaughey, he started trying to build his body too.
- Fake American: Polish Izabella Scorupco as American helicopter pilot Alex.
- Playing Against Type: At that point in his career, Matthew McConaughey was mostly known for romantic comedies, playing charming leads with a mop of stylishly messy hair on top of his boyishly handsome face. Here, he's an antihero with a beard and a bald head.
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