David Heavener first met director William Byron Hillman at a bar at the American Film Market. They brainstormed the outline of this movie in about five minutes and immediately pitched it to some of the AFM booths. They secured millions in funding by outright lying, claiming to have a full script for a movie they concocted less than a day earlier.
At the climactic fight, most of David Heavener's cuts and bruises were real. He attributes this to Benny Urquidez (a real-life fighter) not knowing how to pull his punches on-camera.