 The idea behind making the film actually came about when Roger Avary  was scouting locations for Quentin Tarantino on Reservoir Dogs.  Avary found a great bank set in Los Angeles and informed Tarantino,  who said that although the location was no good for Dogs, it would  be good for a film set in a bank. One of Avarys scripts, Killing  Zoe, was almost entirely set in a bank, and with that as the  motivation, the making of the film began.