Andrew Renzi developed the script at the 2013 Sundance Screenwriters Lab. In August 2013, it was announced that it would be produced by Treehouse Pictures, TideRock Media, and Big Shoes Media,with exec producers from Magnolia Entertainment, Soaring Flight Productions, and QED with Richard Gere cast to portray the role of Franny, and Andrew Renzi directing. Treehouse Pictures had produced Gere's 2012 film Arbitrage.
