Kayvan Mashayekh had just arrived on a location scout for the film in Morocco on 11 September 2001. After returning to the US a week later, no one would talk to him about his project for one year and all financial backers withdrew support.
The project was halted and started twice due to lack of funding.
Co-writer Belle Avery was a Bond girl. She appears as the girl in the boat in the pre-title sequence of The Living Daylights (1987), where she is credited under the name of Kell Tyler.
The shipping company lost six days' worth of unprocessed film after it left Uzbekistan and miraculously "relocated" it one day later in London.