History Trivia / RedPlanet

* {{Defictionalization}}: two decades after this film's release, NASA sent Ingenuity, a helicopter drone, to Mars as part of the Perseverance mission. This drone operates in a similar fashion to AMEE's flying drone, using twin rotors spinning in opposite directions to achieve lift.

* CreatorKiller:
** Antony Hoffman has never directed another film - and this was his debut.
** Creator/ValKilmer's [[ThePrimaDonna behavior on the set]], combined with film's poor reception and bombing in the box-office, was the final nail to his career as an A-lister, never to recover.

* CreatorKiller: Antony Hoffman has never directed another film - and this was his debut.

* VindicatedByCable: Oh hell yes. Since the movie was a massive flop, but in the same time came with an AllStarCast and was still a competently made sci-fi movie, it very easily found its second life and dedicated fanbase via TV reruns.

* CreatorKiller: Antony Hoffman has never directed another film.

* HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/ValKilmer and Tom Sizemore began feuding during production. According to reports, it all began when Kilmer got annoyed about a fancy exercise machine that Sizemore wanted shipped from England to the set in Australia. Eventually the two hated each other so much, Kilmer would not come out of his trailer if Sizemore was on the set. Many of their scenes together were filmed over the shoulders of photo doubles. Kilmer reportedly refused to say Sizemore's character's name, saying instead "Hey, you!" At one point, they got into a confrontation that escalated into them throwing weights at each other until Sizemore knocked out Kilmer with a punch to the chest. (At a crewmember's request, he avoided Kilmer's face). The two have never worked together again.

* DuelingMovies: The original title of this film was, simply, ''Mars''. But the release of ''Film/MissionToMars'' in the same year required a name change.

* WorkingTitle: ''Mars''.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/JosephFiennes was initially in talks to play Robby Gallagher.

* TroubledProduction: The tension between Kilmer and Sizemore, which supposedly began over the latter having an exercise machine shipped out to the location in Jordan's Wadi Rum, eventually reached the point where Kilmer wouldn't even say Sizemore's character's name during his takes, requiring some fancy rewriting. The two have never worked together again.

* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Val Kilmer and Tom Sizemore's characters are quite close in the movie. During production however both of them were feuding to the point that Kilmer refused to even come out of his trailer when Sizemore was on set, forcing a good number of their scenes to be shot with doubles.
* TroubledProduction: The tension between Kilmer and Sizemore, which supposedly began over the latter having an exercise machine shipped out to the location in Jordan's Wadi Rum, eventually reached the point where Kilmer wouldn't even say Sizemore's character's name during his takes, requiring some fancy rewriting. The two have never worked together again.

* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Val Kilmer and Tom Sizemore's characters are quite close in the movie. During production however both of them were feuding to the point that Kilmer refused to even come out of his trailer when Sizemore was on set, forcing a good number of their scenes to be shot with doubles.

* DuelingMovies: With ''MissionToMars''.

* DuelingMovies: With ''MissionToMars''. Honestly, it was sort of a tie as both movies are relatively forgettable.

* DuelingMovies: With ''MissionToMars''. Honestly, it was sort of a tie as both movies are relatively forgettable.

* HeyItsThatGuy: We've got [[BatmanForever Bruce Wayne]] and [[TheMatrix Trinity]] IN SPAAAAAAACE with [[TheMentalist Patrick Jane]] and [[MissCongeniality Eric Matthews]] trying to figure out what the hell's going on with Mars.

* DuelingMovies: With ''MissionToMars''.