The news anchor that reports on the arrest of Ditch Brodie in downtown Phoenix is Martha Vazquez. She was at the time and for many years a news anchor at KVOA News 4, Tucson before resigning in 2012.
Tom Cruise and Michael Douglas both passed on the role of Ditch Brodie, which ultimately went to Charlie Sheen.
Although the movie didn't do particularly well in the box office, Charlie Sheen says it was one of his favorite movies to make.
Many scenes were filmed at an airfield near Marana, Arizona. This field has been used for civilian skydiving, aircraft storage, military training, and CIA functions. Evergreen International Aviation, a sometimes CIA contractor based in McMinnville, Oregon, has had operations at this field. The forklift used in the film is clearly stenciled "EVERGREEN."
Ditch drives a white 1970 Dodge Challenger, an homage to the iconic white 1970 Dodge Challenger in Vanishing Point (1971), which was directed by Richard C. Sarafian, the father of this movie's director, Deran Sarafian.