The film was shot between Oct 6th 2007 and March 2nd 2008. The first edit was completed by the end of 2009 but, due to inexperience and lack of technical know-how, it was completed without location audio. The actors in FPU trained with PCW for 9 weeks to learn to impersonate wrestlers and did all their own wrestling and stunts. The actual professional wrestlers in the film were not required to actually wrestle in the film. Most of FPU was shot in an abandoned warehouse with no power, requiring a large generator to run lights, the noise of which can be heard in every shot at this location. By 2011 location audio had been re-synced but due to a falling out with those responsible was never delivered to the producers. During production the director's car was written off by a drunk off-duty police officer, the insurance money was just enough to allow shooting to continue. All the blood in FPU is made from Coles home brand chocolate sauce. In a pivotal scene depicting the death of a main character the actor playing the part of the killer failed to turn up and didn't return calls. An attempt was made to shoot the scene from a first person point-of-view, but in post production a random beam falling from out of shot was added to create the death scene instead. In the years 2011 - 2013 the producers shelved FPU and made, and then released world wide, the roller derby slasher film MurderDrome. In 2014 FPU was completely re-edited from source footage and finally premiered to a sold out crowd on Jan 10th this year.