The shooting schedule was a tight twenty days, considering the multiple locations, stunt work, and budget.
The original screenplay draft (written by co-Writers Jim Cliffe and Melodie Krieger) had been recognized in 2007 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Nicholl Screenwriting Competition, as well as the Page International Screenwriting Awards, where it won the Bronze prize out of three thousand international screenplays. This film is their first feature-length script.
With interest in their award-winning screenplay, Jim Cliffe and Melodie Krieger received plenty of encouragement to re-write Donovan as a younger character, but the two felt strongly that the hero needed to have a certain amount of life experience.
In creating working theories for "cold fusion", Jim Cliffe enlisted the help of a physicist friend, to make sure the on-screen science looked somewhat plausible.
Kim Priebe: Executive Producer, as the woman in the grocery line who rolls her eyes at Donovan's careless bagging.