The Bruce Willis look-alike in the film, Eric Buarque, also played Willis' stunt double in "Live Free or Die Hard."
The Expendables impersonators who all met on set have remained close and have worked on other projects since, calling themselves "The Expandables."
President Snowballs admits that he came up with the idea of the Starving Games after watching Running Man (1987) and Battle Royale (2000). This is a humorous reference to the accusation against Suzanne Collins that she copied the idea of Hunger Games (2012) from the novel "Battle Royale."
For the first time in Friedberg and Seltzer's careers, the movie was a box-office bomb, with only $3,889,688 earned against its $4.5 million budget.
Cody Christian and Brant Daugherty starred together in the TV show "Pretty Little Liars." Cody played Mike and Brant played Noel.