| 1 | * BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $47 million. Box office, $11,089,907. |
| 2 | * BreakawayPopHit: The soundtrack by Music/{{Vangelis}} completely outshined and outlived the film, to the point where people are confused it ''was'' a soundtrack to some movie and not a stand-alone concept album. |
| 3 | * CompletelyDifferentTitle: Known in France as ''1492: Christophe Colomb'' (''1492: Christopher Columbus''). |
| 4 | * CreatorKiller: Downplayed. It didn't completely kill Creator/RidleyScott's career, but he didn't direct another movie for four years and it wasn't until ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' that he regained momentum, eight years later. |
| 5 | * DuellingMovies: With ''Christopher Columbus: The Discovery'', which came out the same year and is, obviously, about [[UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus the same guy]] and his first voyage to UsefulNotes/TheAmericas. |
| 6 | * FakeNationality: |
| 7 | ** The French Creator/GerardDepardieu as the Italian (specifically Genoese) Christopher Columbus. |
| 8 | ** Out of the entire main cast, Beatriz and de Marchena are the only Spanish characters played by actual Spaniards. The rest are mostly Americans, along with a [[Creator/MichaelWincott Canadian]] and an [[Creator/ArnoldVosloo Afrikaner]]. Ironically, Columbus' brother Giacomo is played by Fernando Guillén Cuervo...[[IronyAsSheIsCast who's Spanish.]] |
| 9 | * KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Almost literally. For a long time, outside of the standard VHS print, the film didn't receive a physical release in the United States until it finally made its DVD and Blu-ray debut from Kino Lorber in June ''2017''. |
| 10 | * MeaningfulReleaseDate: One of several movies (along with, among others, the live-action ''Christopher Columbus: The Discovery'' and the anime ''Anime/TheAdventuresOfChristopherColumbus'') released in 1992 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the voyage. |
| 11 | * RealLifeWritesTheHairstyle: Creator/SigourneyWeaver wore a wig, as she'd shaved her hair off for ''Film/Alien3''. |
| 12 | * ReferencedBy: In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'', Koichi is struggling to open a lock that requires the year Columbus discovered the new world, he mentions that he once heard about ''Conquest of Paradise'' but never watched it since he considered the length too long. |
| 13 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: |
| 14 | ** Creator/FrancisFordCoppola and Creator/OliverStone were approached to direct. |
| 15 | ** Music/HansZimmer was originally chosen to compose the music for the film until Creator/RidleyScott decided to approach Music/{{Vangelis}}. |
| 16 | ** Creator/GerardDepardieu suggested Creator/SylviaKristel for the role of [[UsefulNotes/TheCatholicMonarchs Queen Isabel]] in the hopes of securing her a comeback. Producers insisted for someone more "bankable" so Sigourney Weaver was cast instead. |
| 17 | * WorkingTitle: ''Columbus''. |
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