Blindness

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• Producer Niv Fichman became interested in the project back in 1999 when he and Don McKellar, who would write the script, flew to the Canary Islands to talk to the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago about giving them the film rights to his book. One of Saramago's conditions was that the film must not be set in any recognizable countries.
• Several images in the film are directly lifted from the paintings of Lucian Freud. These include the nude woman laying face down on the bed in the mental hospital as well as the man laying on his back with his arm over his face with a whippet at his side.
• Movie Goof (factual errors): When the first blind man arrives home, he says he lives on the 14th floor. After his wife arrives you can see some trees through the kitchen window. Those trees should not be there.
• In addition to cutting it, Julianne Moore dyed her signature red hair blonde for the film. This made her very uncomfortable because people were giving the new color so much attention.