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* DyeingForYourArt: As per norm for Christian Bale, he actually learned how to run a steel furnace and didn't use a double for the furnace scenes.

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* CutSong: Music/EddieVedder wrote several songs for the film, but Scott Cooper thought they were too perfect and powerful, which could pull the audience out of the story, so they mutually decided to leave them out of the film and unreleased.
* DyeingForYourArt: As per norm for Christian Bale, Creator/ChristianBale, he actually learned how to run a steel furnace and didn't use a double for the furnace scenes.scenes.
* NoStuntDouble: Creator/ChristianBale did his own training to work at the active steel mill, and can be seen working there in the film without a stunt double.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio was attached to play the lead role with Creator/RidleyScott directing in the early stages of production. In the end, both opted to stay on just as producers. Creator/JeremyRenner was also offered the role.
** Creator/GarrettHedlund, Creator/TaylorKitsch and Creator/ChanningTatum were considered for Rodney Baze Jr.
** Creator/ViggoMortensen was first approached about the role of Harlan [=DeGroat=]. Creator/BillyBobThornton was also considered.
* WorkingTitle: The original script was called ''The Low Dweller'', but when Scott Cooper was rewriting it, he considered changing the name to ''Under a Black Sun''. While shooting the working title of the film was ''Dust to Dust''. It was Creator/TerrenceMalick and Creator/SamShepard who finally convinced Cooper that ''Out of the Furnace'' was an apt title for the film.
* WriteWhoYouKnow: The character of Russell Baze is based on someone very dear to Scott Cooper.
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* DyeingForYourArt: As per norm for Christian Bale, he actually learned how to run a steel furnace and didn't use a double for the furnace scenes.

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