Jerry Lewis joined the project at the insistence of Nicolas Cage; the two have been friends for years. Lewis, however, has less than one minute of screen time.
Police uniforms, badges, insignia and squad cars were created for a non-existent "LVPD." Actual Las Vegas Metropolitan Police department is known as the LVMPD or Metro.
During the filming of the movie, the crew discovered a body in the yard where they were shooting.
Scene where the apartment floor plan is marked out with tape inside a space surrounded by high, braced walls was shot inside the rooftop facade of the Riviera Hotel.