Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman signed open-ended contracts. They agreed to work on this project until Stanley Kubrick released them from it, however long that turned out to be.
Stanley Kubrick died just four days after presenting Warner Bros. with what was reported to be a final cut of the film, after a legendarily long shoot. His friends and family, as well as the cast and crew of the film, all claimed that Kubrick's death was completely unexpected and that he never seemed to be in poor health while making the film.
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman spent so long living in the UK, due to the prolonged shoot, that their 2 children acquired English accents.
When it was announced that Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman would be making the film with Stanley Kubrick, Vincent D'Onofrio (who played Leonard "Private Pyle" Lawrence in Kubrick's previous film Full Metal Jacket (1987)) had this open advice for them: "Rent a house or apartment, because you're going to be in England for a while."
Appeared in the Guinness Book of Records with the record for "The Longest Constant Movie Shoot," at four hundred days.
Stanley Kubrick: [114] The room in the morgue visited by Bill is in wing C, room 114 (C-Rm114, or CRM-114). CRM-114 was the name of the decoding machine in Kubrick's film Il dottor Stranamore - Ovvero: come ho imparato a non preoccuparmi e ad amare la bomba (1964), as well as the number printed on the medicine that Alex is given in Arancia meccanica (1971).
Stanley Kubrick: [The Glare] The scene in the taxi, when paranoid thoughts are going through Tom Cruise's mind.
Stanley Kubrick: [Dopplegangers] Thomas Gibson bears a passing resemblance to Tom Cruise (and they are in fact the exact same age).
Stanley Kubrick: [Bathrooms] Alice is seen using the toilet early in the movie. At the party, a girl overdoses in Victor's bathroom.