Anecdotes

The film was completed in 1991, but was shelved and not released theatrically until three years later. This was due to studio production house Orion Pictures' bankruptcy.

Final film of director Tony Richardson, who died three years before the film's theatrical debut.

Tony Richardson died in 1991, a short time after the picture was completed.

The "Blue Sky" of the film's tile refers to "Project Blue Sky" which involves a government project and report involving nuclear testing and underground detonation at a test site which included cosmic noise and a kiometer receiver and the subsequent government cover-up regarding radioactivity that ensued.

The film's original source story by co-screenwriter Rama Laurie Stagner was semi-autobiographical.