1. Leonardo DiCaprio was rushed to a hospital in South Africa by helicopter due to a fall during the filming.
2. The South African Dibes Diamond Company is worried that the release of this film will affect the public's enthusiasm for diamond products. Because the premiere coincides with Christmas, "Can you imagine consumers seeing diamonds at Christmas time? And this is all because of something that happened in the past, and now there is no such thing as (smuggling diamonds). It's up." Then there was news that the South African diamond industry had jointly boycotted the film.
3. The film once reported a breach of contract scandal. The local disabled in Africa who acted as extras in the film broke the news to the New York Post that the crew had promised to provide them with prostheses and signed a contract at the beginning of the filming, but they did not honor it after the filming ended.
4. Jennifer Connery suffered a neck injury while filming a car chase.
5. The gunship that appeared near the end of the film was the Mi-24 "Hen" Mk IV, which was modified from the Soviet-made Mi-24 "Hen" and was modified by the South African weapons company Advanced Technology and Engineering. Among them, the electronic Equipment, weapon systems and protective equipment have all been improved.
6. Solomon's son was named Dia, and "Dia" means "expensive" in the Creole dialect of Sierra Leone.
7. Russell Crowe was once the candidate to play Danny.
8. When Danny arrived in South Africa, he passed two women standing in front of the airport. They were Leonardo DiCaprio's mother and grandmother.
9. In the film, DiCaprio's tattoo of African buffalo on his shoulder is the emblem of the 32nd Battalion of the South African Elite Foreign Corps. The nickname of the 32nd Battalion is "Buffalo Camp."
