- As he had done in Huesca, production designer Arthur Max used a real kasbah when constructing Ibelin, and simply built an 'extension' onto the existing structure. The set was built primarily by local craftsmen using traditional building techniques (eg mud bricks were made on-site from local earth and straw, doors and window frames were hand-carved from local palm trees, roofing tiles were hand-thrown and hand-fired).
- When Sibylla shows Balian the rings she wears and explains where she got each of them, she points to one particular ring and says that this one came from France and that she's never been there. In reality, Eva Green was born and raised in Paris.
- William Monahan (II)'s first draft of the script was 186 pages. Executive producer Lisa Ellzey was worried that when such a large script was submitted to Fox for budget approval, they would balk at the length, so she called what she refers to as a 'parenthetical meeting'. According to Ellizey, almost every piece of dialogue in Monahan's script was preceded by a parenthetical description of how the lines should be spoken. Ellizey removed every single parenthetical (much to Monahan's chagrin), and thus managed to get the page count down by 20 pages before sending it to Fox.
- Movie Goof (factual errors): A few times during the movie, the Muslims are shown praying while the prayer call is being delivered. The prayer call precedes the prayer.
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