Although all parties have yet to publicly elaborate on the full extent of it, it's been widely reported that the film faced significant production problems and creative interference during post-production. As of 2024, the film is no longer publicly available in any official form and Mars Fargo has never acknowledged it since.
Mars Fargo actually liked the small budget, because the character would need to have been able to shoot the footage with what he already had access to.
The idea came when Mars Fargo realized how unsuspenseful most time-travel movies were; He observed how they almost always revolved around someone having to prevent a paradox that would destroy the universe, and that they always succeeded. Because audiences had seen so many, they always knew the character would probably succeed and therefore weren't scared.
Thus, Mars Fargo decided this film would BEGIN with a paradox destroying the universe.
Thus, Mars Fargo decided this film would BEGIN with a paradox destroying the universe.
While writing the film, Mars Fargo created a bulleted list of everything that had already been done in time-travel movies.
Afterward, as a rule, he wasn't allowed to do any of them.
Almost all the footage on the first day of filming was heavily improvised;
After analyzing the dailies at the end of the day, Mars Fargo determined the cinematography for the rest of filming.
Mars Fargo: The final sequence, starring the director and Blake Laisure, was shot without storyboards.