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* [[Box Office Bomb]]: ''Subverted''. It is often cited as one of the most notorious box office failures in movie history, but that's not doing the research properly: it did flop in the ''US'', but then it went to the foreign market and performed very well there, easily making back its budget in gross revenue.
* [[Executive Meddling]]: Unusually it was actually Costner editing with rumours of him firing Reynolds.
** Relatedly, script doctor [[Joss Whedon]] says his job was basically taking notes from Costner.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[Jack Black]] as the smoker airplane pilot.
** Enola went on to play Deb in ''[[Napoleon Dynamite]]''.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: For some who watched the Japanese dub, [[Ikue Ohtani]], who does the voice for Enola is known for providing the voice for Pikachu years before [[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]].
** Trailer voiceover legend Hal Douglas narrates the opening.
* [[Novelization]]: Written by mystery/comics writer [[Max Allan Collins]], the novelization did a good job of expanding character backstory and tying loose plot threads together.
* [[Troubled Production]]: The ballooning of the budget ($100 million to $175 million) is the lesser part of it. The [[Executive Meddling]] made it even worse. The hurricane trashing the main set didn't help either.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: The film originated as a writer's pitch to notoriously low-budget producer [[Roger Corman]]. Corman turned it down [[Hilarious in Hindsight|saying that it would cost them $5 million]].
** The version that Universal ended up buying was basically a kiddie flick -- Enola was the main character alongside two of Helen's own kids, the Mariner was a human and largely a supporting character, while the early version of the Deacon can only be described as being how you'd expect the Adam West ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' series to characterize him. Needless to say, the subsequent drafts took the film in a very different direction.
** Universal Pictures wanted [[Robert Zemeckis]] <ref>Yes, [[Back to The Future|that]] [[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?|Robert]] [[Forrest Gump|Zemeckis]]</ref> to direct. [[Kevin Costner]] insisted on having [[Kevin Reynolds]].

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