The five super heroes' names are all chemical components found inside cigarettes: nicotine, benzène (benzene), méthanol (methanol), ammoniaque (ammonia), and mercure (mercury).
It premiered at the midnight section of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
It was shot in fall 2021, mostly in the South of France, in Uzès and around the Peïroou lake near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
The two robots Norbert 500 and Norbert 1200 are nods to the Commodore Amiga home computers.