In an article for the German publication Berliner Kurier, Wolfgang Lindner recalls the eccentricities of Steven Seagal on the set. Reportedly, Seagal traveled everywhere in the company of a Buddhist adviser whose verdicts on the state of Seagal's karma would be reason enough for Seagal to halt filming for a day.
Some aerial shots in this film were originally shot, but ultimately unused, for Michael Bay's film The Rock (1996). Bay is very good friends with director Don Michael Paul and allowed him to use the footage in this film.
All indoor prison scenes were shot in an old STASI prison in Berlin, Germany.
Although writer/director Don Michael Paul praises Steven Seagal in the "making-of featurette" on the DVD, he has since gone on to give interviews saying that Seagal was a disruptive force on the set and that he would constantly turn up late and delay production for no apparent reason.