- All-Star Cast: This movie contains big-name stars across the board including: Ben Affleck, Ryan Reynolds, Ray Liotta, Andy García, Jeremy Piven, Chris Pine, Alicia Keys, Common, Tommy Flanagan and Taraji P. Henson.
- Billing Displacement: Ben Affleck gets top billing. His job is to act as Mr. Exposition and then get killed by the Tremor Brothers a quarter of the way into the movie.
- Deleted Scene: The film originally had an elaborate opening sequence consisting of thousands of animated photographs taken on-set, but it was cut by Joe Carnahan due to pacing issues.
- Fake American: Ryan Reynolds (FBI Agent Messner) and Kevin Durand (Jeeves) are both Canadian, and Martin Henderson (Elmore) is New Zealander.
- Fake Nationality: Tommy Flanagan (Hungarian Laszlo Soot) is Scottish, Nestor Carbonell (Basque Pasquale Acosta) is American, Joel Edgerton (Croatian Hugo Croop) is Australian, and Vladimir Kulich (The Swede) is Czech-Canadian.
- The Other Marty: Michael Shannon was originally cast as Darwin Tremor, but was fired by Joe Carnahan after being rude to a costume designer. Carnahan proceeded to cast Chris Pine in his stead within ten seconds of seeing his audition.
- Prop Recycling: Ryan Reynolds reused his facial injury prosthetics and contacts from The Amityville Horror (2005) for the cilmactic shootout.
- Throw It In!: Ryan Reynolds and Ray Liotta entirely improvised their dialogue in the surveillance van.
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