- Actor-Inspired Element: According to Adam McKay, it was Christian Bale's idea for Cheney to break the fourth wall at the end of the film. McKay didn't initially want to have Cheney addressing the camera but once Bale pointed out that if there ever was a time to do so it would be in that scene, McKay agreed to film it, not knowing whether he would include it in the final cut or not. Bale and McKay wrote the monologue together just a day before filming. In the end, McKay was so impressed by Bale's performance in the scene and how it captured Cheney's essence that he decided to include it in the film and was thankful for Bale to have suggested it.
- Billing Displacement: Jesse Plemons doesn't even show up in any promotional material despite being a very important character and the narrator. He’s arguably more important than George W. Bush, who is played by the well-promoted Sam Rockwell.
- Creator's Oddball: This film is one of the few where Tyler Perry appears but doesn't have any creative control, along with Star Trek (2009), Gone Girl, Those Who Wish Me Dead and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.
- Creator Backlash: McKay admitted that he agreed with the critics who said the film was far too one-sided in terms of politics and that he should have highlighted the Democratic Party's role in supporting the Iraq War.
- Cut Song: The cast filmed a musical sequence, but it was cut in editing after Adam McKay decided to shift to a more serious tone.
- The Danza: Paul Yoo as John Yoo.
- Deleted Role: Bill Pullman was attached to play Nelson Rockefeller, but his scenes were cut from the final film.
- Dyeing for Your Art: Rather than rely on padding and prosthetics, Christian Bale gained a significant amount of weight, shaved his head, and bleached his eyebrows to look like Dick Cheney as closely as possible. He also says that he consulted a nutritionist for the first timenote to gain the weight and lose it again in a healthy manner in consideration of his advancing age.
- Fake American: British Christian Bale as Dick Cheney, fellow Brits Eddie Marsan as Paul Wolfowitz and uncredited Naomi Watts as a news anchor. Mary Cheney is played by Canadian Allison Pill.
- Production Posse:
- This film reunites Christian Bale and Steve Carell, two of the leads from Adam McKay's previous film, The Big Short.
- Amy Adams also appears in a McKay film for the first time since Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.
- Those Two Actors: This is the third film where Christian Bale and Amy Adams work together. They play a couple again after doing so in American Hustle, which was also made by Annapurna Pictures.
- Uncredited Role: Alfred Molina as a waiter and Naomi Watts as a news anchor.
- Working Title: Backseat.
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