- In a June 2008 interview with The Guardian, Abel Ferrara, who directed and co-wrote the original Bad Lieutenant (1992), said that finding out his movie was being remade was "a horrible feeling", "like when you get robbed", and that those involved in this remake "should all die in hell". He also wondered how Nicolas Cage "can even have the nerve to play Harvey Keitel", and called screenwriter William M. Finkelstein an idiot.
- Although being promoted as a remake of Bad Lieutenant (1992) during its early production, director Werner Herzog claims that this is not a remake. He says he has never seen the original and therefore does not consider this movie a remake. Additionally, producers seemed to have added "Bad Lieutenant" to the title in order to get a better marketing. Whether remake, re-imagining, follow-up or none of the aforementioned, both movies are clearly connected by the basic plot of following a drug addicted, violent cop during his encounters with crime and sex.
- The original Bad Lieutenant (1992) starred Harvey Keitel, with whom Cage appeared in National Treasure (2004).
- Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes had previously played love interests in Ghost Rider (2007).
- Michael Shannon and Brad Dourif appeared in both of director Werner Herzog's two films The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (2009) and My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009).
- Denzel Whitaker, who appears in this film with Eva Mendes, acted alongside Mendes in his first film, Training Day (2001).
- Veteran television writer William M. Finkelstein's first feature film screen writing credit.
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- SPOILERS= The film begins and ends with shots of animals swimming in water. Not only that, but Nick Gomez is the first person seen on-screen as well as one of the two people at the end of the film.
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