While shooting second unit footage at the Jaws surf break in Maui, the crew was fortunate enough to catch one of the largest wave breaks of the last decade being ridden by the world's top big wave surfers.
Teresa Palmer did most of her own stunts, despite this being her first acting job after she gave birth to her son Bohdi.
In the original 1991 film, James Le Gros played Roach, one of the ex-Presidents; in the remake he plays an assistant director of the FBI.
The Angel Falls sequence is an expensive one, with a structure that cost upwards of $500K to build. It consisted of a platform that was approximately the size of a football field just beneath the summit of the falls where the crew set up camp so as not to disrupt the environment by making camp on the ground. Kosove likened the shoot at Angel Falls to a "full-scale military operation".
The film includes a sequence shot at Venezuela's legendary Angel Falls, which is protected and as such required much participation from the local government as well as numerous permits.