New Line Cinema had obtained the rights to the Stephen King short story "The Lawnmower Man", and the producers also had an unrelated script called "Cyber God". For economical reasons, they simply placed King's title on the production of "Cyber God", and early promotional material with that claim even went public. King was furious at this abuse of his name, and he sued the studio to have his name and title removed from the film and promotion. The studio refused, but was eventually ordered to pay ten thousand dollars and full profits to King. The trailer that plays on Amazon Prime mutes the mention of Stephen King.
The eight minutes of computer generated effects took seven people eight months to complete on a budget of $500,000.
It was discovered through FBI tapes that this was former Waco cult leader David Koresh's favorite movie.
When Jobe puts a CD into the car's player on his solo drive to VSI, the disc can be made out just barely. It's not the music from the scene, but rather Céline Dion's first English-language album, Unison, from 1990.
Jenny Wright (Marnie) did only the close-ups in the VR strobe scene because the strobe light made her sick. Her wide-angle shots were done using a double, and the close-ups of her face were done with a bluescreen, so that she didn't have to move.