Trivia / A Far Off Place

• Gender Flip: The main hero in the original works was a boy, but filmmakers decided to rewrite the screenplay with Reese Witherspoon as the lead.
• Seven life-size prosthetic elephants were created for the film.
• Casting the role of Xhabbo took several months as talent scouts met with over 4,000 Bushmen from four African countries. Sarel Bok, a musician of Bushman descent, was hired in April 1992 after being discovered in Cape Town, South Africa.
• Shown Their Work: Reese Witherspoon studied with a Matabele tribe in Africa to perfect the Bushman language her character uses in the film.
• Reese Witherspoon and Ethan Embry would later appear together in Sweet Home Alabama.