The screenplay for this film was featured in the 2012 Blacklist; a list of the "most liked" unmade scripts of the year.
The film's cast includes three Oscar winners: Russell Crowe, Octavia Spencer, and Jane Fonda; and three Oscar nominees: Quvenzhané Wallis, Janet McTeer and Amanda Seyfried .
The leather jacket that Russell Crowe's character wears is the same make and model that Jensen Ackles's character wears on Supernatural (2005) from season 1-5. The real jacket from that show was stolen while filming a promo shoot for season 6.
Russel Crowe and Amanda Seyfried have worked together before, in the 2012 film, Les Misérables.
Amanda Seyfried and Aaron Paul previously appeared together in the TV series 'Big Love' in which they played a couple.