He becomes lost in a labyrinth of bureaucracy, eventually recruiting his own younger brother into military service to the chagrin of his mother.

Alex Cox had initially optioned the rights to a film version of Harry Harrison's 1965 novel in 1983 as he was completing Repo Man.

The project met with studio resistance and remained unmade until 2012 when Alex Cox had begun teaching film production at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

[3] In March 2013, Cox launched a Kickstarter campaign, hoping to raise $100,000 to shoot the film.

[4] Cox also succeeded in getting numerous film professionals to work on a royalties basis.