In the closing credits, Malone is holding his Virginia driver's license as it slowly burns . The signature on the card of the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles reads "Alfred E. Newman", who is "Mad Magazine"'s goofy mascot.
According to an interview Burt Reynolds gave to the "Los Angeles Times" in January 1987, the role of Malone was offered to Gérard Depardieu and then Christopher Lambert, before it was offered to him.
Lauren Hutton doesn't have her signature gap-teeth here, but Burt Reynolds is wearing a very noticeable toupee.
In the early 1980s Burt Reynolds was in talks to adapt novelist Don Pendleton's character "Mack Bolan" from the immensely popular "Executioner" series, which was published from 1969-80. Due to Reynolds' character using the 44 Automag, a signature weapon of Mack Bolan, "Malone" was initially mistaken for a Mack Bolan episode. However, it was based off the relatively obscure novel titled, "Shotgun" by William P, Wingate. Reynolds used the Automag as a joke directed at his friend and cinematic rival, Clint Eastwood.