Part way through production, Rutger Hauer completely discarded the script and refused to do any scenes from it. The majority of his scenes were improvised by him. Later, Executive Producer, Writer, and Director Roger Avary was forced to re-write the remaining script to match up with Rutger's footage.
This was the first "original" movie aired by The Syfy Channel. A few years later, they started advertising their made-for-television movies as "Syfy Originals", but they did advertise this quite a bit as new and never-before-seen.
This was meant to be a pilot for a proposed television series. After Rutger Hauer gave up on the movie, the series was sunk.
This movie was mentioned (not by name) a year before it was released when producer Morgan Mason's wife, The Go Go's singer Belinda Carlisle, was on The Howard Stern Show and said that her husband's working for the same company Howard's Private Parts was being produced by, Rysher Entertainment.
The previous year, director Robert Avary directed the video for The Go Go's new single Has The Whole World Lost Its Head? which is sung by Belinda Carlisle, wife of Mr. Stitch producer Morgan Mason.