Trivia

Bringing in a trained pelican cost the studio roughly $50,000

From the very outset, director Sam Esmail had been insistent on using original segments from a variety of his favorite original scores for his series. After exhaustively researching the complex prospect of licensing and copyright considerations, Esmail was eventually able to acquire clearance to go ahead with what had never been done before: score a TV series with digitized samples of original feature film music compositions. The excerpts from original scores used throughout the series were gleaned from the following: Title / Composer / Director

[S1/E1]

• Dressed to Kill (1980) / Pino Donaggio / Brian De Palma
• All the President's Men (1976) / David Shire / Alan J. Pakula
• Marathon Man (1976) / Michael Small / John Schlesinger
• Vertigo (1958) / Bernard Herrmann / Alfred Hitchcock

[S1/E2]

• Klute (1971) / Michael Small / Alan J. Pakula
• Duel (1971) / Billy Goldenberg / Steven Spielberg
• The Gift (2015) / Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans / Joel Edgerton

[S1/E3]

• Capricorn One (1978) / Jerry Goldsmith / Peter Hyams
• The Andromeda Strain (1971) / Gil Mellé / Robert Wise
• The Car (1977) / Leonard Rosenman / Elliot Silverstein
• Chariots of Fire (1981) / Vangelis / Hugh Hudson
• Gray Lady Down (1978) / Jerry Fielding / David Greene
• The Star Chamber (1983) / Michael Small / Peter Hyams

[S1/E4]

• The Amityville Horror (1979) / Lalo Schifrin / Stuart Rosenberg
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) / Bernard Herrmann / Robert Wise
• The Hand (1981) / James Horner / Oliver Stone
• Carrie (1976) / Pino Donaggio / Brian De Palma
• The Andromeda Strain (1971) / Gil Mellé / Robert Wise
• All the President's Men (1976) / David Shire / Alan J. Pakula
• L'apocalypse des animaux (1973) / Vangelis / Frédéric Rossif

[S1/E5]

• Body Double (1984) / Pino Donaggio / Brian De Palma
• The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) / David Shire / Joseph Sargent
• The Conversation (1974) / David Shire / Francis Ford Coppola
• Escape from New York (1981) / John Carpenter & Alan Howarth / John Carpenter
• The Thing (1982) / Ennio Morricone / John Carpenter
• Narrow Margin (1990) / Bruce Broughton / Peter Hyams
• The French Connection (1971) / Don Ellis / William Friedkin

[S1/E6]

• Scanners (1981) / Howard Shore / David Cronenberg
• High-Rise (2015) / Clint Mansell / Ben Wheatley
• The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) / Jerry Goldsmith / John Huston
• Three Days of the Condor (1975) / Dave Grusin / Sydney Pollack
• Copycat (1995) / Christopher Young / Jon Amiel
• Creation (2009) / Christopher Young / Jon Amiel

[S1/E7]

• Gray Lady Down (1978) / Jerry Fielding / David Greene
• The Thing (1982) / Ennio Morricone / John Carpenter
• The Andromeda Strain (1971) / Gil Mellé / Robert Wise
• Christine (1983) / John Carpenter & Alan Howarth / John Carpenter
• The Parallax View (1974) / Michael Small / Alan J. Pakula
• The Thing (1982) / Ennio Morricone / John Carpenter
• The Fog (1980) / John Carpenter / John Carpenter
• Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) / John Carpenter & Alan Howarth / Tommy Lee Wallace

[S1/E8]

• The Conversation (1974) / David Shire / Francis Ford Coppola
• Christine (1983) / John Carpenter & Alan Howarth / John Carpenter
• Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) / John Carpenter & Alan Howarth / Tommy Lee Wallace
• Altered States (1980) / John Corigliano / Ken Russell
• The Andromeda Strain (1971) / Gil Mellé / Robert Wise
• The Fog (1980) / John Carpenter / John Carpenter

[S1/E9]

• Body Heat (1981) / John Barry / Lawrence Kasdan
• Dove siete? Io sono qui (1993) / Pino Donaggio / Liliana Cavani
• Raising Cain (1992) / Pino Donaggio / Brian De Palma
• Legend (1985) / Tangerine Dream / Ridley Scott
• Oblivion (2013) / Anthony Gonzalez & Joseph Trapanese / Joseph Kosinski
• All the President's Men (1976) / David Shire / Alan J. Pakula
• The Eiger Sanction (1975) / John Williams / Clint Eastwood

[S1/E10]

• The Dead Zone (1983) / Michael Kamen / David Cronenberg
• The Andromeda Strain (1971) / Gil Mellé / Robert Wise
• L'opéra sauvage (1976) / Vangelis / Frédéric Rossif

"Geist", the name of the fictional company behind the Homecoming program, is the German word for ghost as well as for mind or intellect.

The language Gloria and Walter speak in Season One is Haitian patois.

Based on the Gimlet Media podcast drama of the same name.