Due to the huge sucess of Miami Vice, Johnson was offered the part of John McClane. However, he had just signed a new deal on the TV show (which made him the highest paid actor on TV at that time)and that new deal stopped him taking the part.

Don Johnson hoped to make this film with Barbra Streisand, who he was dating at the time, but their break-up meant he was also no longer attached to the project.

Don Johnson was considered to play Eliot Ness.