The film is a remake of the 1974 ABC Movie of the Week, Savages (1974). Sam Bottoms and Andy Griffith portrayed the Jeremy Irvine and Michael Douglas roles, respectively.
One of the Mercedes' designers flew in from Germany and lived with the crew for six weeks to make sure the truck endured the shoot.
Filmed in Farmington, New Mexico and surrounding areas like Shiprock on the Navajo Reservation.