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• Behind-the-scenes images from location shooting were broadcast live over the Internet.
  
  
• References to other Kevin Costner films: a mule is killed and Civil War battles (Dances with Wolves (1990)), and threatening to use a spoon as a weapon (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)).
  
  
• The Postman's fake president was named "Richard Starkey", the real name of Ringo Starr.
  
  
• Another Kevin Costner film reference: Costner's character being asked for his "seed," as in Waterworld (1995).
  
  
• In the sequence where Kevin Costner's character names Richard Starkey (Ringo Starr) as President, he continues with another reference to The Beatles by telling the assembly "It's getting better. Getting better all the time" from the band's song "Getting Better".
  
  
• One of the films playing on the movie screen at the Army Camp is "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon".
  
  
• At one point, this was in development as a project for Ron Howard, with Tom Hanks set to star.
  
  
• The crew referred to the film as "Dirt World".
  
  
• The cities of Pineview and Benning where both filmed in the small town of Metaline Falls, Washington. Tons of dirt was brought in to turn the paved roads into dirt roads and a lot of work was put into to make the buildings look old and distressed.
  
  
• Residents of an apartment building in Metaline Falls, Washington were paid to have their windows blown out during the "Hannibal at the gate" scene that takes place in Benning. The apartments were later repaired and cleaned up, returning them to new.
  
  
• The area of Metaline Falls, Washington (where a lot of the filming took place) did not have much to offer for housing film crews (like hotels) so many of the crew stayed at local campsites, rented rooms from locals. Kevin Costner rented a house from a resident of the nearby town of Ione, Washington. The stars and crew treated the locals very kindly even when approached for autographs when eating in local restaurants.
  
  

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