Director Don E. Fauntleroy agreed to direct the film under the terms that Steven Seagal would stay on set until he was told he could leave.
At one point, Screen Gems was considering this film for a theatrical release.
Steven Seagal allegedly did not like Carmen Serano at all, to the point that he refused to film critical scenes with her and even made her cry a few times.
The fifth and (as of 2022) final collaboration between Don E. FauntLeRoy (his third as director) and Steven Seagal.
In a 2020 interview, director Don E. FauntLeRoy discussed the troubled production of this film. Unlike most of the direct-to-video films Steven Seagal was making at the time, which kept his screen time to a minimum while having a sidekick do most of the action scenes, this film featured Seagal's character in 90% of its scenes. When combined with a 20-day shooting schedule, this made Seagal's long-standing policy of only spending a few hours a day on set unfeasible. Production quickly spiraled into FauntLeRoy filming as much as he could around Seagal and Seagal refusing to come to work, which resulted in two days being wasted. On the very last day Seagal spent more than 13 hours filming 22 pages of material to make up for lost time. FauntLeRoy cites this as a primary reason why he and Seagal have not worked together since, although he believes the film is still among the best of Seagal's DTV output.