The film was originally started by director 'Ken Russell', but after he locked horns with one of the film's nine producers, he was fired and David DeCoteau was hired to replace him.
This was one of the first seven films to be foreclosed by the Screen Actors Guild for non-payment of wages and residuals to SAG members. On 13 July 2004, rights to the film were sold at auction.
Shot in nineteen days.
One of eight films executive produced by Jordan Belfort in 1996 and 1997, later better known as (his infamous nickname "The Wolf of Wall Street"), by (he wrote the book), and for (both the movie based on his book, and serving twenty-two months in federal prison) Le Loup de Wall Street (2013).
James Coburn III and Christopher Plummer later appeared in Pixar films Monsters Inc (2001) and Up (2009) as the main villains Henry J Waternoose and Charles Muntz both of these films were directed by Pete Docter.