Trivia / 3000 Miles to Graceland

• Blooper: The end credits conclude with one at the end of the "Such a Night" music video, showing an outtake where Murphy (Costner) makes a Back to the Future reference during the climactic standoff with Michael, causing the cast and crew to break into laughter.
• Box Office Bomb: It grossed $18,720,175 worldwide, a shade over three-tenths of its $62 million budget.
• California Doubling: A large portion of the film was shot in Vancouver, Canada, doubling for the Seattle area. Notably, despite Michael's goal ultimately being to escape the U.S. and take the money to Canada to get it cleaned, none of the characters actually visit the country in the final product.
• Completely Different Title:
  • Japan: Scorpion.
  • France: Destination: Graceland.
  • Germany: Crime is King.
  • Italy: La rapina.^note The robbery
  • In Spanish, the title was slightly tweaked in Latin America, where it's known as 3000 millas al infierno ("3000 Miles to Hell"), while in Spain it's known as Los reyes del crimen ("The Kings of Crime").
• Creator Couple: David Arquette (Gus) and Courteney Cox (Cybil) were married at the time of the film's release. They have since divorced.
• Dueling Movies: With itself! Apparently, Kevin Costner and Kurt Russell disagreed about the film's tone so much that the studio let each actor cut their own version for test audiences. Russell's film was more of a black comedy that focused more on the relationship with the Courteney Cox character while Costner's film was dark and violent. It is reported that most of the finished film is from the Costner cut.
• Dueling-Stars Movie: The movie is overtly Costner vs. Russell. The film poster splits the difference by listing Russell's name first but having Costner's character in front of Russell.
• Playing Against Type: Kevin Costner, normally the hero, plays a psychopathic robber who kills a fellow robber (Christian Slater) for suggesting that Frank Sinatra could take Elvis Presley in a fight.
• Troubled Production:
  • The film's shooting process was marred by behind-the-scenes struggles faced by its financier, Franchise Pictures, which was sued by co-financier Intertainment in late 2000 for allegedly inflating the budgets of their films, to such an extent that Graceland had fraudulent charges totalling nearly 25% of the entire budget, which flowed directly back to the production company. Intertainment eventually won its case against Franchise (and its founder, Elie Samaha) in 2004, winning a $77 million judgment and shutting them down for good.
  • The apparent rivalry between Costner and Russell, seemingly led by confusion over the film's tone, led Franchise to allow both stars to create competing cuts of the film in a bid to figure out which one was better. Costner edited the film into an edgy crime drama, and Russell's cut favored Black Comedy, as it was centered around the relationship with Cox's character, Cybil. Test audiences gave Costner's version the edge, and it's this version the final cut was created from.

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