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First digital composite with matte painting; Black & Decker lawsuit; reduced Leguizamo role; Amos-Willis tension; wet prints; Valverde shared with Commando
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- It was the first film to digitally composite live-action footage with a scanned matte painting, used for the final runway scene.
- Black & Decker paid for a cordless-drill placement in a Willis scene, sued Fox for $150,000 when it was cut, and settled out of court.
- Leguizamo's autobiography says his role was meant to be bigger until the filmmakers realized how short he was.
- John Amos described real tension with Willis during filming and said Willis would never humiliate him in public again; he is compared with an old wrestler airing grievances.
- The film was finished so late that it shipped to theaters as a wet print, a phrase proposed as a band or pod name.
- Esperanza is a general from Valverde, the same fictional country as Commando, prompting a mock announcement of a Valverde drug-war book.