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All the footage of Quentin Tarantino interviewing Cirio H. Santiago had to be cut from the final finished version of the film.
Mark Hartley originally wanted to use the song "Long Time Woman" by Pam Grier for the opening credits, but the rights to this song proved to be too expensive.
This film started out as a documentary on Weng Weng by filmmaker Andrew Leavold. By 2007, Leavold assembled enough footage to show a rough cut and gained the attention of local producers, who bought it and credited Leavold for his original idea as the basis for Mark Hartley's Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010), a documentary about cult films made in the Philippines. Leavold was hired on as an associate producer. The film was well received, but since it only mentioned Weng Weng briefly, it left Leavold unsatisfied. Leavold negotiated with the other producers of Machete Maidens Unleashed! so that he could finish his documentary. He launched a successful Kickstarter campaign and released The Search for Weng Weng in 2013.
Shot in three weeks.
Leo Fong and Alan Birkinshaw were also interviewed for this documentary, but neither interview is included in the final version of the picture.
