In the latter film, Martin's farm took 11 weeks to complete the construction.
Before the formal finalization, the screenwriter Robert Rodarte changed the script 17 times.
Heath Ledger performed the stunt himself.
Harrison Ford refused to play the role of Benjamin Martin in the film because, in his opinion, the film script wrote the War of Independence as an act of revenge for one person.
Benjamin Martin in the script has 6 children, but Mel Gibson increased the number of children to 7 because he himself has 7 children.
The prototype of Colonel Tavington in the film is the British cavalry commander Colonel Banastre Tarleton. Although Colonel Tarleton has some quirks, he is not as cold and ruthless as the characters in the film.
When Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger were trained in the shooting of the front-loading rifle, the film technical consultant Mark Baker once told them: The smaller the target, the smaller the error. It means that if you are aiming at a person, you will miss the target if you deviate, and if you aim at a button, even if there is a deviation, you will hit that person.
Both Jack Gyllenhaal and Paul Walker had hoped to play Gabriel in the film.
Among the corpses of the British soldiers floating on the river in the film is a dummy of John Travota.
Kevin Spacey was the first person to play Colonel Tavington, but Mel Gibson's salary has reached US$25 million, and the filming budget of the producer is really unable to pay Spacey's salary.
