Trivia / Nate and Hayes

• Box Office Bomb: While the film's exact budget is unknown, its low gross of $1.9 million contributed to the belief that pirate movies were box-office poison, which was held for three decades before Pirates of the Caribbean movies started racking up money. It did, however, put New Zealand on the map as a filming location, according to Weta FX founder Richard Taylor.
• California Doubling: Shot in New Zealand and Fiji.