The film stars Lily Collins, Simon Pegg, Connie Nielsen, Chace Crawford and Patrick Warburton.

The beneficiaries are his wife, Catherine; his son, William, a politician running for reelection; and his daughter, Lauren, a Manhattan District Attorney.

In November 2018, it was announced Simon Pegg and Kate Mara had joined the cast of the film, with Vaughn Stein directing from a screenplay by Matthew Kennedy.

Richard B. Lewis, David Wulf, Dan Reardon, and Santosh Govindaraju produced the film, under their Southpaw Entertainment, WulfPak Productions, and Convergent Media banners, respectively.

The website's consensus reads: "A would-be thriller that waits far too long to embrace the daffy potential of its bizarre premise, this Inheritance should be steadfastly refused.

"[12] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 31 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.

[13] In the months after its video on demand release domestically (United States and Canada), Inheritance was shown in theatres in six other countries, earning $304,931 in foreign box office receipts.