This movie was pulled from theaters in Japan after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit in March 2011.
For a while, it seemed that Matt Damon would be unable to appear in this movie due to his commitment to The Adjustment Bureau (2011) so he suggested to Clint Eastwood to consider Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Hayden Christensen, or Josh Brolin in his place. Instead, Eastwood was able to adjust the filming schedule so that Damon could appear in both movies.
In a February 2010 interview with the U.K.'s "Daily Telegraph", Clint Eastwood described this movie as "three different stories with people who have gone through some sort of stressful time and it's about how they sort of converge together. Much like a lot of French movies have been in the past, where the stories kind of converge together, and destiny drives each person towards the other."
One of the few movies executively produced by Steven Spielberg that has neither an Amblin Entertainment nor DreamWorks Pictures symbol in the ads representing his involvement. (The Amblin logo does appear at the end of the movie.)
Filming shut down for a month in December 2009, as Matt Damon was filming The Adjustment Bureau (2011).