Trivia / 3:10 to Yuma (2007)

• The Cast Showoff: Kevin Durand, who plays Tucker and is also a singer, sings "They're gonna hang me in the mornin', before the night is done, they're gonna hang me in the mornin', I'll never see the sun" one night when he's on watch.
• Deleted Scene:
  • In a deleted scene (included on the DVD), Ben Wade tells Byron McElroy, "I heard that your boss, Al Pinkerton, got an infection from biting his own tongue, and he died last month. Is that true?" Allan Pinkerton did die from an infected bite on his tongue, on July 1, 1884. This would place the events of the movie as occurring in August, 1884.
  • There are also a few deleted scenes that portray Tommy Darden as a Small Name, Big Ego prick, with pretensions towards The Starscream. This puts Wade's killing of him in a new light.
• Fake American: Both leads - Christian Bale is Welsh and Russell Crowe is from New Zealand.
• Playing Against Type: A rare villain role for Russell Crowe.
• Reality Subtext: Warned about the pain of surgery, Byron McElroy tells Doc Potter that it's not the first time he's been shot. In Real Life, Peter Fonda accidentally shot himself in the stomach when he was ten.
• Serendipity Writes the Plot: The unfinished buildings that Wade and Evans run through in the climatic shoot-out, were originally supposed to be fully finished, but production ran too low on money to have them completed.
• Title Drop: Announced several times to various people that Ben Wade's destination is the 3:10 to Yuma. They even tell Ben himself when he asks.
  Wade: Now I know where to meet up in case we get separated.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The film was originally going to star Tom Cruise and Eric Bana.
  • James Mangold originally wanted Kris Kristofferson as Byron McElroy.
  • Originally, the Marshal and his two Deputies merely surrendered their weapons to the outlaws in Contention. Later, the filmmakers were left with the difficult plot point of deciding what their role would be in the rooftop chase. Unable to come to a satisfying answer, they decided to contradict the original script and had them shot dead after they surrendered their guns.
• Word of God: In his commentary, director James Mangold says Ben Wade “only kills people that I hope the audience will find annoying” so the audience would still find him an appealing character.

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