Since most of Howard McCain’s previous directorial experience focused on TV play; teleplay; TV drama; TV serial;, it was the first time to be a screenwriter, so for him, how to successfully sell a script became the most important one. It was a difficult and most critical step. McCain said: "In fact, I never thought that scripts could be sold, because I also knew that in this industry, I still looked very young and immature. The reason why I created this script at the time was only to regard it as the beginning of my writing career. No matter whether anyone was willing to buy it, it symbolized the opportunity of a budding career. At that time, it seemed that Anyone who has read the script likes this story very much, and there have been many opportunities to close a deal, but there are always some joint responsibilities involved and a little deviation occurs. During this period, the British filmmaker Renee Ha Lin (Renny Harlin) even became interested in being a director for this film. Almost 3 years ago, we began to try to make this script in the film, completely by raising funds by ourselves. A good friend of mine, Patrick. Patrick Tatopoulos designed a creature full of fantasy colors for me for free. Later, we found a superior film company that had successfully produced " Lucky Number Slevin " (Lucky Number Slevin), and we were lucky. The land was favored by Barrie M. Osborne, who was one of three ""The producer of ", we first successfully made him a fan of this story, and then we instigated him to join the ranks of the production. After another year, we sent the script to New Zealand, hoping to get more budget funds, but because this is an independent film, and it is also very expensive, so many of the original expectations The investment has not been realized. But we did not leave New Zealand, but went directly to the Weta Studio and asked it to take charge of the special effects part of the film. They also provided us with all the armor, chain mail and similar combat equipment. We even planned to be there. The movie was filmed in the Southern Islands, but unfortunately, we suddenly went bankrupt and all our efforts came to naught. That period was really the saddest day of my life. "
Regarding the concept design of the film, Howard McCain also expressed his own thoughts. He said: "Our main character designer is Iain McCaig, a good friend of mine and also One of the film’s producers, he also designed the latest three " Star Wars " (Star Wars), but after that, he left the George Lucas film studio with a group of designers to come I went to Los Angeles and formed a cooperative with other film artists, which was responsible for some art and concept drawings. In the summer of two years ago, just before we went bankrupt in New Zealand, we hired them and it took almost 10 weeks. , I have done all the concept maps and storyboards, and we are responsible for making them three-dimensional and moving. This is really an amazing film. Maybe I have paid a heavy price for it. But I will not regret it."
