For writer and director Richard Shepard, hotel lobby bars, and the encounters in them, have been the setting and theme for several of his short stories and movie scripts. He said: "My initial impetus was a story about two complete strangers who meet in a bar. The thing about hotel bars is that you can tell the absolute truth about yourself with the safety net of knowing you are never going to see the person again. It's the perfect set-up for a good story." For Shepard, that story was taking two disparate men. One, an average businessman abroad, and the other, an international hitman, and crossing their paths to see where the characters went. The result, Shepard explains, was to take a frequently clichéd character, the hitman, and make him "off kilter", much the way the film Sexy Beast - L'ultimo colpo della bestia (2000) took the heist film, and made it a character-driven story. Shepard said: "I was very inspired by Sexy Beast - L'ultimo colpo della bestia (2000). It took the 'one last heist' genre and re-invented it, by stressing character over action. After I saw that film, I thought, 'Hey, maybe there's a way to tell a hitman story without falling into the clichés of that genre as well'. While there's action and suspense, and hopefully a lot of tension involving the hits, this film is also, at its heart, a comedy, and a warm one at that."

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