Tom Cruise called Glen Powell, with whom he co-starred in Top Gun: Maverick (2022), to give him advice before shooting this movie. Powell recalled, "Tom rang me to give me the low down and, what I thought would be a ten min call, lasted two and half hours - he basically told me how not to die! He also gave me running lessons. He said, 'You should film yourself running because you don't look as cool as you think you do.' He was so right!"
The giant 'N' logo above the Network building is coloured red and resembles the Netflix logo (everywhere else in the movie the logo is colored white). This is a subtle dig at Netflix, who director Edgar Wright says ran trailers for his film Le Dernier Pub avant la fin du monde (2013) that carelessly gave away the ending.
Edgar Wright told Stephen King to watch Hit Man (2023) to convince him that Glen Powell was the right choice to play Ben Richards.
The book the movie is based upon was published in 1982 but takes place in 2025, the year this movie is being released. The original movie was released in 1987 and takes place in 2017.
The tagline for original novel was "WELCOME TO AMERICA IN 2025 WHEN THE BEST MEN DON'T RUN FOR PRESIDENT. THEY RUN FOR THEIR LIVES." The movie was released the same year the book was set.