'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot' trivia and fun facts

The film's title, 'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot', is a humorous allusion to the abbreviation "WTF".

In February 2016 interview with NPR, Kim Barker, who wrote "The Taliban Shuffle" (the war reporting memoir that was the basis for this movie) said that Tina Fey first became interested in optioning the memoir because when Michiko Kakutani reviewed the book for the New York Times, Kakutani said that Barker "depicts herself as a sort of Tina Fey character".

This is the third time Martin Freeman and Billy Bob Thornton have worked together. The first was in 'Love Actually' (although they did not share any scenes). The second was in the 2014 TV show 'Fargo'