Despite being set in Bali, Indonesia, the film was filmed in Queensland, Australia.
The fifth film for co-stars George Clooney and Julia Roberts after Ocean's Eleven (2001), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), Ocean's Twelve (2004), and Money Monster (2016).
A license is required to drive a boat in Australia, so Maxime Bouttier (Gede) had to do his practical exam and written exam within two weeks - and got 97%. He had to put the boat license to use on the first day of shooting, with big wind and big ships...and George Clooney and Kaitlyn Dever in the boat with him.
George Clooney's character makes a comment about an "age appropriate date". This is a reference to Clooney himself who has a long history of being romantically linked with significantly younger woman. His wife, Amal Clooney, is seventeen years younger than he.