Shattered Glass

• Melanie Lynskey replaced Maggie Gyllenhaal who was originally cast as Amy Brand but left the project because of scheduling conflicts.
• Originally, Greg Kinnear was to play Chuck Lane.
• Hanna Rosin, a real life journalist who was a colleague of both Stephen Glass and Chuck Lane, worked as an adviser to writer/director Billy Ray. The character of Catlin Avery was based loosely on Hanna Rosin.
• In the DVD commentary, the real Charles Lane talks about confronting Stephen Glass in front of a restaurant in which Glass claims to have had dinner with people he featured in a dubious article. Lane's comments occur as this confrontation is dramatized in an exterior shot filmed at the actual location of the restaurant in Bethesda, Md. Lane's comments identify the restaurant as "the Original House of Pancakes." But in the shot, a sign inside the restaurant that is visible through the glass front door shows a logo (a chef flipping a very large pancake above a frying pan) and name which correctly identifies the restaurant as part of the national breakfast-and-lunch franchise, "The Original Pancake House".