The scene where Princess Regina trips over her bed sheets was not scripted, but director Gil Junger liked it, so it was kept and put in the final cut.
Members of the Society for Creative Anachronism helped in the historical recreation of this movie by providing consulting work and playing as extras.
10 days before the premiere of this film, Daryl Mitchell (Steve) was in a motorcycle accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down.
The film was rushed by Fox after the attacks on 9/11 to be released much sooner than it was intended. The film was slated for a winter/spring 2002 release and had just started the post-production process when director Gil Junger and was called by the studio to speed up the editing on the film for a November 2001 release date to capitalize on family friendly entertainment, comedies, dramas and thrillers which some studios were filling with after having to reschedule films that were deemed too sensitive for that period of time.