Trivia: The banker who turns down Jacob's first request for a loan is named Mr. Bingley, an obvious homage to one of the main characters in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. J. K. Rowling has stated numerous times in interviews that Austen is her favorite author, and this is not the first time she has alluded to her works with a character name; Argus Filch's cat, Mrs. Norris, from the Harry Potter books and movies shares her name with the busybody character from Mansfield Park.
Trivia: Stay after the credits for another scene with Viola Davis.
Trivia: The horse that Chris Pratt rides in this film is one of the horses used in War Horse (2011).
Trivia: Revealed in behind-the-scenes info, Chef was originally going to have a song called "Bringing Back Happy," explaining to the Trolls about her depressing years of unsuccessful hunts for them and how she would "bring back happy" by cooking them. However, this idea had to be scrapped due to timing issues.
Trivia: Michelle Williams was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Randi Chandler, even though she's only in the film for 12 minutes.
Trivia: The film's production was quite troubled. A crewmember named Ricardo Cornelius was killed in a freak accident when he was crushed by a Humvee and a stuntwoman named Olivia Jackson was severely injured, with her face being "de-gloved" and sustaining may injuries and fractures which resulted in the loss of her right arm. Thankfully she survived and made a full recovery and the doctors were able to surgically mend her face and other injuries.
Trivia: SPOILER WARNING. The character of Kevin was originally intended to be in the film "Unbreakable" (to which this film is revealed to be a sort-of sequel in the final twist scene), but he was removed for thematic reasons, as it was felt that his presence took away focus from that film's true villain "Mr. Glass." Writer/Director M. Night Shyamalan has stated his intentions to make a third film in the "trilogy" that will feature Bruce Willis' character David Dunn from "Unbreakable" being forced to confront Kevin, who will be his ultimate "supervillain."
Trivia: The movie was filmed in secret and revealed in 2015, when it was shopped around to distributors. Netflix acquired the movie and released it as a Netflix-exclusive title in 2016. However, it was removed from the service in 2023 once the initial licensing deal expired. Director Mike Flanagan has stated his intention to try and shop the film around for a physical media release on DVD/Blu-Ray in the near future.
Trivia: Director John Hamburg was James Franco's professor when Franco was attending the graduate film-making program at New York University.
Trivia: Even though they play mother and daughter, Michelle Borth is only eleven years older than Nichole Bloom.
Trivia: Jason Bourne only has 45 lines of dialogue in the entire film.
Trivia: Scarlett Johansson is the first woman to play Kaa the python.
Trivia: Husband crab Bill is John Ratzenberger, who is in all Pixar films.
Trivia: Stick around for hilarious outtakes after the credits roll with Melissa McCarthy and Kirsten Bell.
Trivia: During the real Deepwater Horizon oil spill, actor Kevin Costner offered his services, claiming that a small company he bought from the U.S. Department of Energy could clean up 90% of the oil in a week, using poorly-tested technology. His offer was accepted, despite zero evidence that the technology ever worked; and it failed miserably, of course.