The hillside house is modeled after a real California architectural landmark, the Chemosphere House created by architect John Lautner. The entire house was created on a soundstage and was actually much larger and rounder than the original.
The script was re-written at least 30 times until one was deemed "acceptable" by the producers and director.
A total of 18 different writers worked on this film.
The speaker sitting on Bosley's desk, through which the Angels hear Charlie's assignments, is the almost the same as the one used in the TV series ("Charlie's Angels" (1976)). The speaker in the original series had a small "Bell" in the lower corner, the movie version did not.
An argument between Bill Murray and Lucy Liu shut down filming for a day.
'Curry, Tim' 's first line, "Over my dead body", is one of his trademark lines from his role as Wadsworth in Clue (1985).
Lucy Liu and Crispin Glover fight in a bell tower, the bell rope is cut, and the bell falls, just missing Kelly Lynch and Cameron Diaz. A similar scene appears in Shanghai Noon (2000), also starring Lucy Liu, where a fight takes place on a bell tower, and ultimately the bell falls, but on this occasion it's Liu herself, and Jackie Chan, who just miss being squashed.
When Bosley is a prisoner in the tower (near the end of the movie) there is one shot of him sitting and throwing a baseball against the wall, a reference to 'McQueen, Steve' in The Great Escape (1963).
Bill Murray's line about once having had a long talk with a squirrel is a reference to his roles in Caddyshack (1980) and Groundhog Day (1993).
At the beginning of the movie, we are shown clips from the Angels' (notional) previous cases. In one, the Angels are seen in prison clothes, chained together. Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore each pull in different directions, and Cameron Diaz, who is in the middle, shouts "I am not a yoyo!" This scene is an exact replica of one from the original TV series. In the episode, "Angels in Chains", Farrah Fawcett says the Cameron Diaz line.
Drew Barrymore was a huge "Harry Potter" fan, even going so far as to read bits of the books to the cast and crew during production. At the beginning of the film, during the clips of previous jobs, she can be seen wearing a Harry Potter disguise, complete with robes, black hair and round black glasses.
In the scene where Drew Barrymore's character "drops in" on two kids playing video games, it's the same house used in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), which co-starred Drew Barrymore. An E.T. poster is visible on the wall over the television.
The secret language the Angels use is Finnish, though very poorly pronounced. They said in Finnish: Alex: Onko sinun ja Knoxin välillä menossa jotain? Dylan: Ei tietenkään. Natalie: On vain niin, että suhteet asiakkaiden kanssa ovat tosi huonoja ideoita. Dylan: Olen samaa mieltä. Translated roughly in English: Alex: Is there something going on between you and Knox? Dylan: Of course not. Natalie: It's just that relationships with customers are very bad ideas. Dylan: I agree. Drew Barrymore's pronunciation was the best.
When Natalie is in the Red Star mainframe, she lifts up a computer board where she installs the antenna. The computer board is the motherboard of an Apple PowerMac G3. You can see the FireWire and USB ports and the wave-design back panel.
The device that the Angels attach to the system in Red Star is a modified Griffin Technologies iMate, an ADB-USB adapter used to connect old Apple Desktop Bus peripherals to newer USB Macs.
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