Shot in eighteen days.
According to Logan Sparks, the screenwriter and a longtime friend of Harry Dean Stanton's, Stanton knew 'Lucky' would be the last film he made before dying.
As with the character in the movie, Stanton actually served as a cook aboard the USS LST-970, a tank landing ship, during the Battle of Okinawa.
The film reunites Harry Dean Stanton and Tom Skerritt after 38 years since they appeared in Alien (1979).