[2] A snippet of the track was played during an NBA on TNT trailer, in which Scott stated: "This is my first original song for a film, which is actually fire 'cause I kinda wouldn't want it any other way".

The song was recorded with producer Ludwig Göransson, who composed the soundtrack and score for Tenet at all the individual artists' homes during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Scott watched Tenet prior to its release and said in his cover story interview for the September issue of GQ magazine he could not explain the film, calling it "very fire".

During that interview, which took place in early July 2020, he accidentally played "The Plan" for the magazine's writer Gerrick D. Kennedy, who labeled the song a "brain-liquefying trip through time and space".

[4]The cover art consists of a "moody" image of Tenet's lead actor John David Washington, floating in red space with the title of the film and the song inscribed in the right corner.