The director and producer first spoke about the story in June 2013. By August the film was fully financed, and a year later, the film was fully completed. It shot in Toronto, New York, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Kazakhstan, edited in Los Angeles, and finished in Toronto.

The Australian actor playing Alex refers to himself early in the movie as an "adult" with an accent on the second syllable, while every Canadian--including Ukrainian and Russian immigrants--would place the accent on the first syllable. In other words, he was using an American accent after having supposedly grown up in Canada according to the plot.

References Darkwing Duck (1991)