Dale Carlson repeatedly threatened to walk off
production unless the producers wrote in a bit part for his wife. The two
later divorced, and Carlson made his peace with the filmmakers.
Craig Long's intense fear of insects caused a
torture scene in a secluded cave to be written out of the script. Long
allowed the producers to chain him to a wall, but when flies began swarming
over him from the walls, he ordered them to let him loose, or else be fired.
The first draft of the script was written mostly on cocktail napkins.
A shower scene between Nova and actor Todd Boatman
was filmed, but cut from the final print. Tina Anne
demanded a bonus for partial nudity, which Craig Long
was willing to pay for the scene, believing it would boost sales, but Chris
Tso refused. (The rumor that Anne and Boatman actually consummated
during this scene is false.)
Chris Tso was unemployed for the entire duration of
the filming. He performed several scenes severely intoxicated.
Chris Reed actually performed the
building-to-building leap through the window in the city chase scene. An old
football limp of his had to be edited out of his running start.
The concept for the film started as a mock soundtrack, then a web page,
then a trailer. Craig Long and Chris
Tso happened to meet producer Samuel L. Bronkowitz at a bus stop and,
while heavily inebriated, persuaded him to finance their production.
Most of the crowd in the football game consisted of the backers' immediate
families. Long wrote out all profanity in that
scene in case one of Bronkowitz's children overheard any.
Long bribed Ed Reed to participate in the film by
financing his new condo in Bakersfield, California. After Reed was done,
Long promptly collected his money back and changed his phone number.
