Vanilla Sky credits

This film is a remake of the 1997 thriller "Open Your Eyes" directed by Alejandro Amamba. After seeing the film, Tom Cruise and the producer Paul La Wagner admired it so much that he bought the English copyright of the original script and invited Cameron Crowe to direct it. The director, who was used to writing original scripts by himself before, was attracted by the open ending and accepted the cooperation proposal. He chose Focusing on the themes of responsibility and emotion among contemporary young people, it is re-elaborated on the basis of the original work.

The filming of the film in New York took place during Thanksgiving and Christmas and lasted for nearly 6 weeks. The crew traveled to Central Park, the Upper West Side, Times Square, Soho and Brooklyn; It had never been approved - to close the central section of New York's Times Square (48th Street to 42nd Street) for two hours on a Sunday morning to film footage of David alone in Times Square.

The sequence required the camera stabilizer operator to create a rickshaw-like device to get low enough for the shot, and the cameraman had to jump as Cruise ran down the street. He stood up and took a bird's-eye view of him rushing through Times Square. At that time, the display screen in the square showed the updated vote status of George W. Bush. In order to avoid affecting the film, the director modified this screen during the post-production of the film.