The producers scrambled to build a new CGI fake hotel called “The Xanadu” to destroy instead. Originally, the casino being brought down by explosives was the New York, New York Hotel- but Sept 11 happened 3 months before release.
The wig worn by Brad Pitt when he’s in disguise as a doctor was actually the same one used 4 years prior by Mike Myers during Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. Luke & Owen Wilson were lined up to play bickering brothers Virgil and Turk, but dropped out at the last minute to do The Royal Tenenbaums instead.
