Was featured on the comedy podcast How Did This Get Made
Mickey Rourke and Bill Murray have both been nominated once for a Best Actor Academy Award, and both lost to Sean Penn. Rourke was nominated for The Wrestler (2008), Penn won for Milk (2008). Murray was nominated for Lost in Translation (2003), Penn won for Mystic River (2003).
This is the second film in which Bill Murray plays a mobster. The other film was "Mad Dog and Glory(1993), where he played Frank Milo.
R&B/soul legend Solomon Burke had a role, but he died of a pulmonary embolism before the film's release.