Armie Hammer wears the same pair of boots while playing Edmund as he wore in THE LONE RANGER. He also carries the same gun, a Colt Single Action Army revolver, that he used in the 2013 Western.
Armie Hammer was cast in the movie by unconventional means, as he was unrepresented at the time. Producer Dallas Sonnier instructed casting director David Guglielmo to send a DM on Instagram to Tyler Ramsey, Armie's best friend. Ramsey and Hammer were both big fans of a Sonnier-produced western BONE TOMAHAWK, and took the incoming message seriously. 24 hours later, Sonnier and Guglielmo closed a deal with Hammer's attorney for him to star in the movie.
Scouting for "Patchee Wells", the water hole location in the script where most of the action takes place, began in 2021 and continued off and on for three years. Director Travis Mills researched options throughout the Southwestern U.S. and even considered locations in Italy and Romania. He accidentally stumbled on the water coves located at Watson Lake in Prescott, Arizona when scanning Google Maps for a nearby national forest. The city owned park of Watson Lake and the nearby Granite Dells became the primary location of the film.
The story rights for Harry Whittington's "Desert Stake-out" were going to expire at the end of 2024 and producer Dallas Sonnier decided the movie needed to be made or it might be lost forever.
Producer Dallas Sonnier's frequent collaborator, writer/director S. Craig Zahler, was the person who originally brought the Whittington novel to Sonnier's attention, suggesting that it would make a good Bonfire Legend production after Zahler was impressed by what Sonnier and the moviemakers had done on another contained movie called THE STANDOFF AT SPARROW CREEK.
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