The film is a complete re-work of Fritz Lang's The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960). Director Dominik Kuhn, who is known in the German-speaking world as 'Dodokay' from his comedic dubs in Swabian (a south German accent) on YouTube, was allowed by the original's producers to 'remix' it. He completely re-cut the film, shot additional footage, re-formatted it to 2.35:1, fitted the new version with a new story line, visual effects, new sound design, a score by Dennis Le Rose and finally dubbed all the original voices himself, as he does in his YouTube franchise.
The call sign of Dr. Mabuse's henchmen in the van is CRM 114, which is also the name of the infamous fictional device used in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).
The beeping sound the door to the Internet central gives off is an alert sound from Space: 1999 (1975).
The only name that was kept from the original's story line is the main antagonist's name, 'Dr. Mabuse'.
The film won Germany's ProPKo 'Special Innovation Award' for product placement, as it placed a big Swabian beer brand in various places by means of CGI where it hadn't been in the original film: e.g. as advertisement on a bus and more notably by placing a bottle with the brand in Gert Fröbe's hand at the hotel bar.