On the The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (1954) on January 14, 2019, Samuel L. Jackson listed Mitch as his favorite role.
Geena Davis and then-husband director Renny Harlin checked how long she could hold her breath in their bathtub to prepare for the "water torture" scene. The three immersions last 51, 81 and 55 seconds of screen time.
In the first draft of the script, the name "Sam Caine" was not an alias used by Charly Baltimore (as it is in the finished film), but was instead a creation of her mind, as an anagram of "amnesiac".
Shane Black became the first writer to sell a script for $4 million. He later admitted that this caused a lot of envy among his fellow screenwriters, as well as accusations of commercialism. He voluntarily retired from the blockbuster industry for almost a decade as a result.
Samuel Jackson said in a GQ interview that he read the script and really wanted the role, but the studio said it was written as a white character. Jackson then met Geena and Renny at a Christmas party, and told them that he loved the scripted and wanted the role, and Renny said "You want to be in my film? Then you've got it.". And that was that.
Renny Harlin: [Finland] A phone booth has writing on the side that says Hell Sinki, as in Helsinki, Finland.