- Approval of God: The miners and their families worked with the production of the film. Mario Sepúlveda expressed his enthusiasm and approval towards having Antonio Banderas playing him.
- Box Office Bomb: Budget, $26 million. Box office, $24.9 million. The film received a lukewarm response from critics but an A- on Cinemascore. This was one of two busts, the other being the Point Break remake, that crippled Alcon Entertainment. It was also the last film released scored by James Horner, who died in a plane crash five months earlier (his work on The Magnificent Seven (2016) was completed by Simon Franglen).
- California Doubling: Half of the film was shot in Colombia, not Chile.
- Fake Nationality: You can count on one hand the number of Chilean actors in principal roles:
- Antonio Banderas and Mario Casas are Spanish.
- Rodrigo Santoro is Brazilian.
- Juliette Binoche is French.
- Lou Diamond Phillips is Filipino-American.
- Gabriel Byrne is Irish.
- Bob Gunton is American.
- Naomi Scott is English.
- Oscar Nuñez is Cuban-American.
- Adriana Barraza, Kate del Castillo, Jacob Vargas and Tenoch Huerta are all Mexican. In Huerta's case he was a Fake Bolivian, playing Carlos Manami.
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