 Davis had wanted to make an action film which focused on guns and was devoid of explosions.He conceived the film after seeing a scene from John Woo's critically acclaimed action film "Hard Boiled" (1992), in which star Chow Yun-fat rescues newborn babies from gangsters while engaged in a gunfight.Davis felt that the scene could be expanded into a feature-length film, a "gun-like" version of "Run Lola Run" (1998).