El hombre oso

During a BBC interview about the film, Werner Herzog was shot with an air rifle. The interview continued indoors. At the end, Herzog was encouraged to check his wound. Despite having "a bruise the size of a snooker ball, with a hole in it," Herzog declared "It was not a significant bullet. I am not afraid."

As Herzog urges Jewel Palovak never to listen to Timothy's last tape, he says it will always be "the white elephant in your room". This is a conflation of two different expressions.

The DVD from Lions Gate Home Entertainment opens with a disclaimer stating that the film has been changed from its theatrical version. The sole change is in the first ten minutes where Herzog explains that Treadwell had become a semi-celebrity. In the theatrical version a clip is shown of Treadwell on CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman." Treadwell comes out and explains what he has been doing and Letterman quips, "We're not going to open a newspaper one day and read about you being eaten by a bear are we?" In the DVD version this exchange is omitted and replaced with a NBC news segment of Treadwell being interviewed. When the interviewer asks if he would ever want a gun to protect himself, Treadwell states that he "would never, ever kill a bear even in the defense of my own life."

Edited into Diminishing Returns: Crank (2017)