Quite unusually, the movie was released barely three months after the completion of filming. It's more typical for major action movies to complete filming a year or more ahead of release, if only to handle all the post-production work, but in this case, all of the most complicated sequences were finished prior to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, so the directors and crew were able to finish nearly the rest of the film before the remaining scenes were shot in early 2024.
Social media personality Khabane "Khaby" Lame appears as a pedestrian in the scene where Marcus walks into traffic.
Michael Bay: the director of Bad Boys (1995) and Bad Boys II (2003) appears as as an irked driver. He's shown driving a black 1980s-vintage Porsche 911 Turbo, the same car Mike Lowrey drove in Bad Boys (1995).