 When the project first came about, the title was "Shadows on the Sun", it was being written by Bey Logan (writer for several Jackie Chan projects) and also had an entirely different plot.The original story was a period piece with Seagal as an intelligence officer who runs a medical clinic in Japan after World War II.By September 2005, however, Logan was no longer involved, and the script was being penned by Joe Halpin (author of several Seagal features in the mid-2000s, including "Submerged", "Into the Sun", and "Today You Die").