 Leftover film stock from "The State of Things" was later used on the first third of Jarmusch's 1984 black-and-white film "Stranger Than Paradise".Although the film "The Survivors", which the crew is shooting during the opening of "The State of Things", was repeatedly called a remake of either "Day the World Ended" or "Most Dangerous Man Alive" by reviewers and encyclopaedia, it bears no close resemblance to either except for the post-apocalyptic scenery.In 1994, Wenders made "Lisbon Story", in which the fictitious film director in "The State of Things", Friedrich Munro (played again by Bauchau), reappears under the name Friedrich Monroe, having expatriated to Portugal.