Also known as the movie that put producer Gary Kurtz in bankruptcy due to its failure and lack of distribution in the U.S.
The aircraft Tasker (Mark Hamill) is flying is a BROOKLAND AEROSPACE OPTICA OA7.
The part of Will Tasker was a notably different role for Mark Hamill, who had previously portrayed Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars film franchise, and was worried being typecast as the naive young hero in science fiction movies.
Byron's (Bob Peck's) line "I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth, put out my hand and touched the Face of God", is taken from the poem High Flight by John Gillespie Magee, Jr., a British-American aviator who died in a mid-air collision during World War II. On his grave is inscribed the first and last lines from his poem. This line is a direct allusion to that poem, and befitting this movie's predominant theme of aviation.
Producer Gary Kurtz was having major financial difficulties while the production and filming took place. He was in the middle of a divorce case which he lost, and lost all of his profits from the Star Wars movies which were used to finance this movie in part. This is one of the major reasons that this movie has gone into the public domain since its release.
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