Sylvester Stallone said the following about the film when promoting Escape Plan 3 on his social media accounts: "Escape Plan 2 was truly the most horribly produced film I have ever had the misfortune to be in."
The Icelandic hacker group Legion's leader, Count Zero, is named after the title character of William Gibson's 1986 work of the same name.
The film was originally slated for a release in the Netherlands on 21 June 2018, but was pulled from the schedule by distributor Dutch FilmWorks. It was then released direct-to-video on 3 August 2018.