Trivia

Shot in 20 days and mostly in chronological order.

Payman Maadi and Kristen Stewart rehearsed for ten days before filming began.

Peter Sattler revealed in an interview that he removed some lines from the original script about Ransdell and Mary going to see Breaking Dawn after Kristen Stewart was cast.

Peter Sattler researched for a year about Guantanamo Bay and learned much of the daily minutia from the leaked Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) of Gitmo through Wikileaks.

The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) in Los Angeles consulted on the film.