Trivia / Green Zone

• Actor Allusion: The bald Iraqi general is Igal Naor. You'd recognize him better as Saddam Hussein in House of Saddam.
• Box Office Bomb: Budget, $100 million. Box office, $94,882,549. One of several films centered on The War on Terror to flop at the box office. It opened at number two behind Alice in Wonderland and quickly fell through. Its spiraling budget played a role in getting Universal chairman Marc Smuger and a few other executives fired.
• California Doubling: Morocco and Spain make for a pretty convincing Iraq.