Creator Killer: An odd case of this happening not to an actor or director associated with a film, but rather a musician. "Cradle of Love", the Billy Idol song whose music video was a Video Full of Film Clips from this film,note though none of the clips shown actually show Dice; this was probably due to his ban from MTV, who had the video on heavy rotation. was also Billy Idol's last hit single. Granted, Idol was largely thought of as an 80's musician, so his career was likely doomed by The '90s anyway, given the sharp turn pop culture took only a year or two later (same goes for Andrew "Dice" Clay), which became especially noticeable following the failure of Idol's 1993 album Cyberpunk. Nevertheless, it has been speculated that this movie worked as a Creator Killer for not only Clay, but Idol as well. Renny Harlin, on the other hand, still had a few years before he would suffer the same fate with the infamous one-two punch of Cutthroat Island and The Long Kiss Goodnight.
Hostility on the Set: Screenwriter Daniel Waters said that he hated working with Andrew "Dice" Clay, calling the experience "traumatic". It was so bad that he was happy when Clay accidentally credited him as "Bobby Rivers" during an interview, as he felt that was one step for his name not being attached.
Star-Derailing Role: The combined failure of this film and his concert film "Dice Rules" killed any possibility of Andrew Dice Clay making the transition from famously raunchy, stand-up comedian to major film star in the way Eddie Murphy had managed years prior. Though Clay did experience something of a revival in the 2010's as a serious character actor with acclaimed supporting roles in Blue Jasmine and A Star Is Born (2018).
Technology Marches On: The reason Ford takes the cases of Johnny Crunch and Colleen Sutton in the first place, despite knowing that both are deceiving him, is because all of his clients bring him expensive (but tacky) gifts instead of money. Thanks to the internet, nowadays he could easily put those items for sale on eBay or another similar site.
The creator of Ford Fairlane, Rex Weiner, wrote an unused screenplay in the mid-1980s that was a straight Film Noir set in the 1950s.
Screenwriter Daniel Waters, who was initially hired to rewrite Weiner's script, claims his draft was a "Beverly Hills Cop-style" vehicle intended for Bruce Willis. Elements of Waters' script would end up being used in Hudson Hawk and The Last Boy Scout.
Billy Idol was originally going to play Smiley in the movie, but had to drop out at the last minute due to a serious motorcyle accident. He was eventually replaced by Robert Englund, and this might explain why Englund does a British accent while playing the role.
Stephen Pearcy, the lead singer of Ratt, was considered to play Bobby Black. The role was eventually played by Vince Neil, the lead singer of Mötley Crüe.
This movie "scored" a triple at the Razzies, including one for Worst Picture of 1990 (it tied with Ghosts Can't Do It).
