In an interview given in 2018, David Cronenberg hinted that he was working on a Netflix TV show created and directed by him. When promoting this movie he revealed that said show was this, and that he wrote two episodes for the streamer but Netflix didn't think it made much sense.
Feeling the movie was uncommercial, distributor Sphere Pictures gave the movie a very limited release in Canada with almost no publicity attached, resulting in the movie becoming a box office bomb.
The usual modus operandi for writer/director David Cronenberg when making a Canadian movie is to cast non-Canadians in the lead roles, and this movie was no exception, with Cronenberg casting the non-Canadian actors Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, and Guy Pearce as this film's leads.