Producer Robert H. Solo hired real gang members as guardians as well as actors. Two of them were shot during filming. The original script by Richard Di Lello took place in Chicago and was more about drug dealing than gang members. Dennis Hopper ordered changes, so Michael Schiffer was hired and the setting was changed to Los Angeles and the focus of the story became more about the world of gang members. Critics complained that the scene showing the funeral being disrupted by gang gunfire ...[Read Story ]