The film's co-screenwriter John Crowther has said of this movie: "I'd known [producer] Pancho Kohner for years. We got to be very good friends. I had actually worked on another Bronson picture as a writer. I wasn't credited, but I was the final writer on location in Switzerland on Tiro incrociato (1979). I was casting director on 10 minuti a mezzanotte (1983). [R. Lance Hill] had it in his contract that he could do the first draft of the screenplay. But it was fairly clear that he was not a screenwriter. He just made a screenplay out of a novel. There were things in it that weren't cinematic. It didn't make good action, it didn't make good visuals. It just didn't work as a movie. Pancho, Lance Hool, and I knew that this really needed a major, major rewrite, really going back to the book and starting over. Pancho told [ITC] that they were bringing me on to rewrite [Hill's] script, which was really not true. I wasn't really rewriting his script, I really went right back to the novel. They hired me on a weekly contract, thinking that it would take two or three weeks and I'd be finished. This all started in '82 in the fall. One of the things that I knew from the very beginning when I read the book was that there were holes of logic in it that you could drive trucks through. The premise is nonsense. It's ridiculous. 'The Doctor' has better security than the Israeli Mossad, it says so in the book. It's just impossible to get to 'the Doctor'. But the security for 'the Doctor' couldn't be more ridiculous. He's got these three lameos doing his security and this crappy video surveillance. So, the challenge was to just keep it going so fast that nobody would notice. I had to keep it moving and at such a fast pace that nobody would turn around and say, 'But wait a minute, that can't be'."

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