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True Lies is based on the 1991 French comedy film La Totale!
True Lies was the first Lightstorm Entertainment project to be distributed under Cameron's multimillion-dollar production deal with 20th Century Fox, as well as the first major production for the visual effects company Digital Domain, which was co-founded by Cameron. It was also the first film to cost $100 million.
After Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), James Cameron initially wanted to make "Spider-Man: The Movie" from an R-rated script that he had written earlier, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Peter Parker and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Dr. Octopus. However, he thought that the film would be technically challenging at that point, and Carolco Pictures wanted to do the movie on a much smaller budget than Cameron had envisioned. He and Schwarzenegger then made this movie instead. The collapse of Carolco (and the ensuing rights issues) as well as other commitments caused Cameron to abandon the project, which was heavily re-written as Spider-Man (2002) and directed by Sam Raimi. Cameron and DiCaprio would later work on Titanic (1997).
Arnold Schwarzenegger's biggest challenge for the movie was not doing all the physical stunts, but dancing a tango. He had to take dancing lessons to realistically perform the dance. He rehearsed the scene for about six months, as he wanted to make sure he was as good at the tango as Al Pacino was in Scent of a Woman (1992).
James Cameron had known Jamie Lee Curtis since she had been directed by his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow in Blue Steel (1990), and always wanted to work with her. However, his friend Arnold Schwarzenegger initially did not see her as Helen, his on-screen wife. Not wanting to hurt Cameron's feelings, Schwarzenegger relayed the message through his agent, and Cameron respected his wish. He auditioned many actresses to find a replacement, but after watching Curtis in A Fish Called Wanda (1988), he knew he would not find one. So Cameron went to Schwarzenegger and asked if he trusted him. When Schwarzenegger confirmed, Cameron said "it's going to be Jamie." Schwarzenegger begrudgingly agreed, and, to his credit, showed no negative feelings towards Curtis during the first days on set.
Jamie Lee Curtis performed the helicopter rescue scene herself on her 35th birthday: November 22, 1993.
Jamie Lee Curtis said that in his contract Arnold Schwarzenegger gets top billing then the title then it would have said starring Jamie Lee Curtis but when James Cameron finished editing the film and he saw that the film was really "a domestic epic, it's a film about a marriage." So James Cameron phoned Arnold Schwarzenegger and asked him if it would be ok to put Jamie Lee Curtis's name before the title, to which Arnold Schwarzenegger immediately agreed. In the world of show business, as Jamie Lee Curtis said, "The credit is such a coveted, negotiable, commodity" that for Arnold Schwarzenegger to give her billing before the title "was a real mensch move on his part."
When asked during an interview whether his wife was bothered by him sitting there watching Jamie Lee Curtis strip, Arnold Schwarzenegger said that she asked him about it and he assured her "Honey, I hated every hour of it!"
Tom Arnold didn't expect to get a role in the movie, and went to the audition mostly for the chance to meet director James Cameron. He did some scenes with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Cameron immediately noticed the chemistry between the two actors. Afterwards, Arnold jokingly said about Schwarzenegger: "He's not that big, I think I can take him", which highly amused Cameron and sealed the deal. Initially, 20th Century Fox objected (Arnold's reputation at the time wasn't positive, mostly due to his public antics with then-wife Roseanne Barr), but when Cameron threatened to take the movie somewhere else if Arnold couldn't be cast, they relented.
Body count: 90.
For her performance, Curtis won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress“ Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and the Saturn Award for Best Actress, while Cameron won the Saturn Award for Best Director. The film ultimately grossed $378 million worldwide at the box-office and was also nominated at the Academy Awards and BAFTAs in the Best Visual Effects category, and also for seven Saturn Awards.
A sequel to True Lies (1994) was once in the works, which would've reunited the principal cast as well as been directed by James Cameron, who directed the first movie. A script was even ready for this sequel, and had the movie been made, it would've been released sometime in 2002. The sequel idea was eventually scrapped (or at least indefinitely shelved) due to script problems as well the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
In January 2018, Eliza Dushku (Dana Tasker) revealed that when she was a twelve-year-old child actress making this movie, she was sexually molested by the film's thirty-six-year-old stunt coordinator, Joel Kramer. Dushku also said that after an adult friend confronted him on the set about the abuse, she was injured during a stunt. After her statement, Dushku's co-stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold and James Cameron all tweeted their respect and admiration for her bravery.
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