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Trivia: The original title for the film was "Flying Wild." A number of trailers for the film under this original title were even released, including notably on the VHS release for the hit film "Jumanji." The title was only changed a few weeks before the film was released in theaters.

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Trivia: The look of the puppet "Blade" is inspired by the actor Klaus Kinski.

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Trivia: The American and international versions of the film have different opening sequences. In the American version, Holmes and Watson meet in school. In the international version, Holmes (accidentally) saves Watson from committing suicide.

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Trivia: In one scene, Chris Tucker orders gefilte fish. This is a bit of an inside joke to the outtakes for "Rush Hour 2." In that film, Chris Tucker was supposed to order gefilte fish in one scene, but Tucker simply could not pronounce the word "gefilte," so the scene was re-written. They later reincorporated the line into this film, just to see if Tucker would finally be able to pronounce it.

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Trivia: Because it took so long to get "Rush Hour 3" into production due to various cast and crew issues, the producers considered filming a third and a fourth film back-to-back, and releasing them a few years apart. This idea was dropped. But perhaps they shouldn't have, because as of 2019, a fourth film has yet to be released, even though the principal cast and crew want to make one.

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Trivia: Originally, Detective Carter's father was going to have a cameo in the film, and he was going to be played by American Politician Herman Cain in a short, humorous scene. However, it was later decided that the scene needed to go, as Carter's father was said to have died in the original movie, and it was felt that ret-conning this important aspect of the character for a throwaway scene would invalidate the first movie.

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Trivia: In something of a weird tradition, every main villain in the "Rush Hour" movies dies by falling. Griffin in the original falls to his death from the ceiling of the exhibition. Ricky Tan is kicked out of a casino window to his death in "Rush Hour 2." And Kenji allows himself to fall to his death from the Eiffel Tower in this movie.

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Trivia: The only "Rush Hour" film not to feature a Michael Jackson song. However, there are a few nods to Jackson in the film - notably Chris Tucker refers to himself as "Bubbles" in one scene - which was the name of Jackson's pet chimpanzee for a time.

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Trivia: Some of the fake money made for the production ended up being stolen from the set by extras. Several of those extras later attempted to pass off the money as real. As a result, the FBI had to briefly investigate the film's production.

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Trivia: Zhang Ziyi's part was originally written to be a male character.

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Trivia: Don Cheadle agreed to be in the film, but only if he could fight Jackie Chan. His scene was then re-written to accommodate his request.

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Trivia: Early in pre-production, famed rapper Tupac Shakur was in consideration for the co-lead Agent Carter.

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Trivia: Several of Agent Lee's humorous gags and action beats were recycled from previous Jackie Chan films. As at the time, not too many of Jackie Chan's Hong Kong films had been released in the US, Chan and the director were able to pick and chose some of their favorite moments from his prior movies to incorporate into "Rush Hour."

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Trivia: Very early on in pre-production, Chris Farley was considered for the role that would ultimately become Detective Lee. The character would have instead been a hapless white police officer whose teamed up with a smart-talking African American officer. After Farley left, his character was re-written to be a "fish out of water" Chinese police officer whose forced to come to the US.

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Revealing mistake: After Jean kills Charles, Jean's house (which is suspended in the air) crashes downwards. Watch the scene very closely, and you can see some minor slip-ups in the computer rendering that give it away as a CGI shot. For example, some of the debris on the walkway in front of the house vanishes after landing. A very small piece of debris on the walkway is also seen "popping" upwards for no reason after having sat still for several seconds. Also, right before the shot ends, a few piece of debris in front of the middle window on the roof begin to flop about before flipping upwards in defiance of gravity. There are also several other minor issues with the shot. (Jean is no longer using her powers once the house falls, so this can't explain it).

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Trivia: Sammo Hung, who co-starred in the original "Project A," was meant to return for this film, but was unable to due to scheduling conflicts.

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Trivia: Jackie Chan hadn't originally planned on making a sequel to "Project A." However, the Japanese Emperor personally told him he was a fan of the first film and wanted to see a sequel, leading Chan to decide to make this film.

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Trivia: It took Jackie Chan a full week to build up the courage to do the clocktower stunt in which he falls from the top of the clocktower to the ground. The scene was filmed in three takes. The first time it was filmed, Chan couldn't bring himself to let go, and he had to hold onto the clock until his arms simply gave out. And to top it off, Chan almost died during the course of filming the scene. To this day almost forty years later, it's still considered one of his most dangerous and harrowing stunts.

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Trivia: The first Jackie Chan film to include outtakes during the credits. Unfortunately, the outtakes were edited out of most western releases.

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Trivia: The original title for the film roughly translated to "Pirate Patrol." The title was changed during production, however, as Jackie Chan and the producers feared that other Hong Kong studios would rush to copy the film by making similar pirate-themed adventures. Chan later chose the much more vague title of "Project A," since it gave nothing away about the plot.

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