The film is produced by "John Wick" franchise stewards, Thunder Road's Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee, plus Adam Kolbrenner ("Free Guy," "Prisoners") and Zach Dean, who also wrote the original screenplay.

I had a beard at the time, which I needed to try to ... The martial arts in the John Wick films are all pretty practical. They aren’t looking for things to be too extravagant.