Ed Harris said in a 2022 interview with USA Today that he previously shot 18 minutes of footage back when Robert Duvall was attached to star in the film.
According to Robert Schnakenberg's 2015 book "The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray", Bill Murray and Nick Nolte were almost in negotiations to star together in About Last Night (1986). A "disastrous meeting" between them caused both actors to turn down the film. Nolte and Murray have since then settled their differences and will collaborate together in The Ploughmen.