Second of three films in a row for writer/director Francis Veber to co-star Pierre Richard and Gérard Depardieu, after La Chèvre (1981) and before The Fugitives (1986).
Writer/Director Francis Veber and co-stars Pierre Richard and Gérard Depardieu reunited three years later for The Fugitives (1986), in which Richard and Depardieu again play characters named respectively François Pignon and Jean Lucas. Despite this, they are not meant to be the same characters and the films are unrelated.