Sir Anthony Hopkins had a brush with death during filming in Alberta. He was taking painkillers for a neck problem. He fell in a river, and didn't feel how cold he was becoming until he began to suffer from hypothermia. He had to be rushed to the hospital to be treated.
One of Bart the Bear's final acting roles before his death on May 10, 2000 at the age of twenty-three.
Sir Anthony Hopkins was suffering from a slipped disc throughout filming, and incorporated the pain he felt from this into his performance.
This was the second movie in which Sir Anthony Hopkins worked that also featured Bart the Bear. The other is Legends of the Fall (1994).
The de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver used in this movie is the same one used in Six Days Seven Nights (1998). It crashed in both movies.