Director Mike Cuff left the production of Dead Trigger during shooting due to creative differences and the final film bears little resemblance to his original vision. Cuff and game developer Madfinger withdrew their support for the film and had no further input on its making.
On October 2007 Oleg Taktarov, and Dolph Lundgren had a celebrity boxing match in Russia where Olg Taktarov was the victor. In this movie Dolph Lundgren was the victor in their fight.
The day before filming Dead Trigger director Cuff was handed a screenplay by Dolph Lundgren and Scott Windhauser that had completely rewritten Cuff's approved screenplay that had 2 years of work in it. The new screenplay was a disaster. The actors had to learn new lines in 1 day. As a result Cuff left on Day 2 and Dolph Lundgren and Scott Windhauser directed the film up to the 58 pages that were written. The rest of the film was written and completed a year later. Cuff had carefully crafted a screenplay that pleased Madfinger enough to trust him with an adaptation of their game IP. Dead Trigger was intended to be a retro-70s "John Carpenter" style horror well before Stranger Things and Barbarian made that cool again. The planned score was to have Siberian throat singers musically represent the zombies, and a Moog electronica score complimented by percussion from Kyle Crane (whose hands did the drumming in Whiplash). Dead Trigger was designed to be an elevated horror with numerous plot twists that effectively used the Dead Trigger video game as its central motif/symbol. The video game was completely removed from the screenplay by Lundgren and Windhauser, while attempts were made in post-production to repair obvious plot holes and logic issues caused by its removal.
Jenny Sandersson often works with her then boyfriend Dolph Lundgren .
Debut for Austin Roy.