Trivia / One Night Stand (1997)

• Box Office Bomb: Budget, $24 million. Box office, $2,618,335.
• Creator Killer: The movie put a screeching halt on the wave Mike Figgis was riding after Leaving Las Vegas, and while he would later have some modest success with Timecode,^note And even then critics acknowledged that it was mostly attributed to the Dancing Bear aspect of its technique of presenting multiple stories through split-screen none of his other movies managed to be well-received.
• Executive Meddling: The first draft of the screenplay was written by Joe Eszterhas, but his name was removed from the project after Figgis rewrote it extensively. Eszterhas said that years later a studio executive told him that the studio allowed Figgis to alter the script because the director had just scored a major success with his film Leaving Las Vegas, while Eszterhas' Showgirls had flopped at the box office. Considering how this film fared, fate loves irony it seems.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Adrian Lyne was offered to direct the film, but turned it down in order to helm the remake of Lolita.
  • Nicolas Cage was offered the lead role, but turned it down, as he'd just got married and wasn't interested in a film about adultery.
  • Max's role was written for a white male. To avoid certain implications of a black man leaving his black wife for a white woman, Max's wife Mimi was changed to an Asian American, played by Ming-Na Wen.

---