This film was a co-production between Cannon Films Group and Warner Brothers. Cannon films were known in the 1980s for producing relatively low budget action films starring the likes of Chuck Norris and Charles Bronson. The producers, Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, had managed to talk Stallone into doing a two picture deal (the other film being 1987s 'Over the Top') but they lacked the finances to hire a star as expensive as Stallone so entered into an agreement with Warner Brothers to co-fund and distribute the movies. So in effect Cannon Films would produce the films in a package sold to Warner Brothers. Both films were only moderately successful though and didn't make the huge profits that were expected.Cannon films had ultimately over-reached themselves by moving out of the small budget films that had made heir name by ambitiously trying to make far more lavish productions, not just with Stallone but also with films like Superman IV - The Quest for Peace and Masters of the Universe (both 1987) that they seriously struggled to fund production of even though they were part of a finance/distribution package with Warner Brothers. By the late 1980s Cannon Films backed out of big budget A list productions due to financial difficulties caused by this string of high profile films that flopped or under-performed. They continued on making low budget films with the likes of Chuck Norris, Michael Dudikoff and some of the earlier Jean-Claude Van Damme films but ultimately went bankrupt in the early 1990s.

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