 A story making the rounds says that this film was originally written  by John Carpenter (I) (qv) in the late 70s, and the script lay in  limbo until the early 90s, when it was set to star  Dolph Lundgren (qv). Eight days before filming, legal issues  between distribution companies supposedly caused it to shut down.  However, according to writer/director Rick Drew (qv), he developed  the story from scratch and had never heard of the alleged Carpenter  script when he wrote it, and in fact received sole credit from the  WGA for the script.