Because some extras brought watches and sunglasses during the filming, several war scenes in the film had to be reshot.
Wallace's wife was originally called Marian, but she changed it to Murron to prevent the same name from the characters in Robin Hood.
Members of the real Chinese Raisi family also appear in the movie, and Mel Gibson also lives with them and learns history.
Screenwriter Randall Wallace had never heard of William Wallace at first, but he later treated him like an ancestor.
The Battle of Stirling took 6 weeks to shoot and cost a million feet of film.
Trim Castle in County Meath is the largest and most important castle in Ireland. In order to restore the castle’s style in the Middle Ages, the crew used a large amount of natural latex film to glue and repair the rocks that have been shaken by the baptism of the years. , So that the castle looks the same.
The mechanical horse specially manufactured for battle scenes weighs more than 200 pounds, is powered by nitrogen, and can reach speeds of 30 miles per hour.
Paramount Pictures is willing to invest in and release this film on condition that Mel Gibson must play the leading role. At first, Gibson very much hoped that Jason Patrick would play William Wallace.
Mel Gibson was once investigated by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Because they think the prop horse used in the film is a real horse. The matter was not ended until Gibson's assistant showed them the video recording the shooting scene.
Most of the extras in the fighting scenes in the film are borrowed from related institutions in Ireland like the British Local Self-Defense Force. Some of them are from the same region, and some are from different regions. In an organization like Ireland, the competition between different regions is very fierce, so the intensity and reality of the fighting scenes we see in the film far exceeds the audience’s imagination.
