The name of the gas station Michelle stopped at to refuel is named "Kelvin". This is an Easter Egg J.J. Abrams slips into all his projects, a tribute to his maternal grandfather Henry Kelvin, who owned an electronics company and influenced Abrams as a boy.
Was filmed in chronological order.
They shot tonally different versions of most scenes from light and humorous to angry and mad so they could find the right mix as a whole.
Emmett (John Gallagher Jr.) handles a VHS tape of the fictitious movie "Cannibal Airlines." This is an Easter egg, one of a series of satirical VHS packages created by writer Rob Schrab and used as decorations at producer J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot production offices.
Bradley Cooper: Provided the voice of Michelle's fiancé, Ben, on her cellphone. J.J. Abrams reached out to Cooper, who he first met on Alias (2001), to record the brief phone call. Cooper recorded the audio on his phone, sent the file to Abrams, and the entire process was completed without the pair speaking to each other about it at all outside of text messages.