Nicolas Cage is a huge fan of Carne de neón (2010), Paco Cabezas's second movie and the one that caught the attention of Hollywood. According to Cabezas, Cage specially loved the performance of Macarena Gómez, and even tried to have her on Tokarev for a role, but Gómez's schedule didn't allow it.
Filmed in Mobile, Alabama.
The Mustang Nicolas Cage drives is the same paint scheme (gun-metal gray with black racing stripes) as Eleanor, the 1967 Mustang GT500 from Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000), which also stars Cage.
"Vory" is acrually plural in Russian, the singular would be "vor", which literally translates as thief, but in criminal slang has a meaning "a criminal boss"