The role of Naiya in the script was written for Sandy Newton.
The song that rang when Cruise was rock climbing was "Iko Iko", which also appeared in the opening of "Rain Man" in 1988.
In order to prevent theft of the projected film while being transported to the theater, the film was given the pseudonym "Doll House".
Ethan told Naiya to stay alive, and then quickly jumped into the passage on the wall of the building. The plot is from 1992's "The Last Morgan Warrior", in which Daniel Day-Lewis made Madeleine Stowe alive. Jump across the waterfall and jump off the cliff.
The commander played by Anthony Hopkins is the first person to say "mission: impossible" in all the "Mission Impossible" series of films and episodes.
Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise's wife at the time, suggested that Sandy Newton should play Ethan's lover. Sandy Newton's role was finalized before the script was written.
The scene where Ethan and Naiya met for the first time came from a similar scene in "West Side Story" in 1961.
The original photographer of the film was Andrew Lesney, but he decided to withdraw less than a month after the film was shot because of differences with Wu Yusen’s image style.
The film is full of many iconic images of Wu Yusen, such as double guns, slow motion, pigeons and rainbows.
Triumph Motorcycle Company provided two models of Speed Triple and Daytona motorcycles for the film.
The film edited by Wu Yusen is three and a half hours long, but the producer told him that the length of the film cannot exceed 120 minutes, which is why the film has frequent loopholes in plot and coherence.
The film is the first film featuring music by the heavy metal band Metallica.
The film was initially rated as R-rated, but was re-rated as PG-13 after being cut.
The editor of the film, Tony Sikorn, had a serious car accident on his way to work and was unable to complete the film. It took 1 year for his hands to resume full functions.
