Morgan Freeman and Frank Grillo were originally cast.
Morgan Freeman and Nicolas Cage were offered to play Stark before Mel Gibson.
The co-writer Daniel Adams was first set to direct the film but stepped away to direct his other script, The Walk (2022).
Cole Hauser and Mel Gibson previously shared some screen time briefly in Paparazzi (2004) in which Cole Hauser's character Bo Laramie attended anger management therapy and Mel Gibson was an unnamed patient sitting in the waiting room. Gibson was also one of the producers of Paparazzi.