The movie wasn't filmed and couldn't be produced as planned. After shooting began in 1999, principal photography went through several revisions before becoming impossible due to adverse lighting conditions on various occasions during filming. Despite being completed by 2002, none of the footage still exists today. These criticisms don't excuse poor editing or deliberate distortion that caused numerous unsatisfactory outcomes for directors Paul Stevens and Joel Kinnaman. Steven Spielberg isn't angry over poor editing because his assistant Len Wiseman hasn't shown him enough cutting scene scenes from movies