Originally the film was to be directed by Ridley Scott in 1989. Then brought Roland Emmerich from Germany to the United States back in 1990 and at the time it was going to be a $90 million movie. So 1990, that's a big budget. It was going to star Sylvester Stallone and Kim Basinger. 'Joel Silver' was the producer and the executive producer was Mario Kassar.