History Trivia / HudsonHawk

** Creator/RichardEGrant regretted having worked on this film, given its TroubledProduction. He even dedicated a chapter about the nightmare that was making the movie in his book ''With Nails''. When Creator/MarkKermode met Grant, he told him that he was one of the few people who liked the film. Grant's response? "It was a stinking pile of steaming hot donkey droppings and you are an idiot".

* TheOtherMarty: Creator/IsabellaRossellini was originally cast as Anna Baragli. When the movie was delayed because of scheduling issues, the part was re-cast with Maruschka Detmers. She had to leave after a few days of shooting due to back problems. Creator/AndieMacDowell replaced her.

** The delays in getting the screenplay together forced original female lead Creator/IsabellaRossellini to drop out -- Willis would instead later work with her on ''Film/DeathBecomesHer'' -- and filming began with French actress Maruschka Detmers in the role of Anna. After only a few days of filming, Detmers dropped out, allegedly due to a back problem.[[note]](Some sources indicate that Detmers quit after openly insulting Willis and decrying the screenplay's quality on-set, though this is contradicted by other sources, which claim that Willis got Detmers a role in ''The Mambo Kings'' out of sympathy for her being forced to drop out of ''Hudson Hawk'')[[/note]] Creator/AndieMacDowell in turn replaced Detmers -- Willis reportedly wanted Creator/FamkeJanssen, but was overruled -- at such short notice that she didn't have time to learn how to do a convincing Italian accent, leading to Anna conspicuously having a Southern American accent despite her Italian name.

* DuelingDubs: The film was dubbed into Japanese three times. In addition to the home media version produced by Tohokushinsha Film, there are two television dubs: one produced by Glovision for Creator/FujiTelevision and another one produced by KSS for Creator/NipponTelevision.

* MultipleLanguagesSameVoiceActor: Enrico Lo Verso plays the apprentice in the original English release and the Italian dub.

* CreatorBacklash: Creator/RichardEGrant really, really disliked working on the film. He even dedicated a chapter about the nightmare that was making the movie in his book ''With Nails''.
* OldShame:
** Creator/RichardEGrant regretted having worked on this film, given its TroubledProduction. When Creator/MarkKermode met Grant, he told him that he was one of the few people who liked the film. Grant's response? "It was a stinking pile of steaming hot donkey droppings and you are an idiot".

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Every cappuccino machine seen in the movie -- a three foot tall bronze R2-D2 looking contraption. These days, most espresso machines are more bread-box sized affairs in a console orientation. The ones used in the film are of the vintage Bezzera/Pavone type.

* ShownTheirWork: While the core economic principle of the plot is riddled with holes (in a [[CriticalResearchFailure post-Bretton Woods]] world), the Mayflowers plan to unlease their machine right before "in 1992, the European superpowers are coming together to form one business superpower." This refers directly to the 1992 Maastrict Treaty, which formed the modern day {{UsefulNotes/European Union}}.

* SparedByTheCut: Tommy was supposed to die in the film, but Creator/DannyAiello requested that he survive. He got his wish in that the movie still shows his DisneyVillianDeath - but then he reappears just fine, with an explanation of how he survived. A cut line from the movie pokes fun at how unlikely this is.

** An example of Willis' flippant approach to production came when Silver wanted Richard E. Grant to play the film's villain, but Lehmann wanted to GenderLift the villain and have her played by Creator/SandraBernhard (after initial choice Creator/AudreyHepburn declined due to health problems, which in retrospect were likely early symptoms of the cancer that would eventually kill her in 1993). Willis decided to TakeAThirdOption and cast Grant ''and'' Bernhard as husband and wife, leading to yet more rewrites; though this did have one unexpected upside in that Grant and Bernhard ended up getting on very well, did a lot to keep the on-set atmosphere up during the troublesome shoot, and remain friends to this day.

* SparedByTheCut: Tommy was supposed to die in the film, but Creator/DannyAiello requested that he survive.

** An example of Willis' flippant approach to production came when Silver wanted Grant to play the film's villain, but Lehmann wanted to GenderLift the villain and have her played by Creator/SandraBernhard (after initial choice Creator/AudreyHepburn declined due to health problems, which in retrospect were likely early symptoms of the cancer that would eventually kill her in 1993). Willis decided to TakeAThirdOption and cast Grant ''and'' Bernhard as husband and wife, leading to yet more rewrites; though this did have one unexpected upside in that Grant and Bernhard ended up getting on very well, did a lot to keep the on-set atmosphere up during the troublesome shoot, and remain friends to this day.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Hudson's obsession with cappuccinos and his difficulty in getting them, as well as Tommy mocking him for them, rings a lot differently in a post-Starbucks world where you can get a cappuccino on any corner. At the time, they were uncommon outside of pretentious joints, and would have been seen as an obscure or pretentious interest.