Trivia / Need for Speed: The Run

• Creator Killer:
  • This game was meant to be EA Black Box's comeback; it didn't work. After rebranding to Quicklime Games for Need for Speed: World, they shut down in 2013.
  • This was the first Need for Speed game to get a Latin-American Spanish dub (previous games had an European Spanish dub). The game's underperformance, however, might be the reason why it's also the last to have one to date.^note The closest to a Latin-American Spanish dub since then has been La Catrina and Gallo Rivera being given a Latin-American Spanish dialect in the otherwise European Spanish dub of Payback, and a Latin-American Spanish dub for the trailer of Heat.
• Franchise Killer: A bizarre instance where a failure in one franchise ended up killing off another franchise. EA Black Box's downsizing and subsequent shutdown after the failure of this game not just ended their involvement in the Need for Speed series, but also put the kibosh on any potential games in the Skate series for at least 10 years, since they were developed by the same team.^note It wasn't until 2020 when EA announced that a new Skate game was in development, with a new development studio being created to develop the game.
• Real-Life Relative: In the Latin-American Spanish dub, Cristina Hernández (Sam Harper) and Ricardo Tejedo (Uri) are married in real life.
• Stunt Casting: In the Latin-American Spanish dub, Jack Rourke was voiced by Julio Bracho, an actor best known for appearing in Telenovelas and other live-action TV series rather than for doing voice work.
• Unspecified Role Credit: In the companion Wii/3DS versions, the voice actors are credited but their roles aren't identified, so one will need a sharp ear to recognize which actor voices which character.^note Such as the Co-Driver being voiced by Catherine Taber, who's almost certainly the "Cat Taber" that appears in the credits.
• What Could Have Been: An iOS version was planned to be developed by EA Mobile, but it was eventually canceled.