Jeff Bridges and Tommy Lee Jones are good friends in real life. Also, they were both considered to play Snake Plissken in "1997. Escape de Nueva York (1981)" before Kurt Russell got the part.
MGM had such confidence in the finished film that they delayed the film from its original April 1994 release date to the busy summer July 94 hoping it would be a surprise hit.
Loyd Catlett, who plays Bama, is Jeff Bridges' stand-in and stunt double in this film and several other films.
Jeff Bridges turned down the lead role in "Máxima velocidad (1994)" to do this film. That was also a mad bomber movie released in the same year as this film.
The scene at Fenway Park was filmed during an actual game that took place Saturday August 14, 1993, between the Toronto Blue Jays and Boston Red Sox. The Blue Jays would defeat the Red Sox 5-2 and won the World Series later that year.