Cyborg

Jean-Claude Van Damme accidentally wounded Jackson 'Rock' Pinckney's eye during a swordfight scene, permanently blinding him in that eye. He took Van Damme to court, and eventually won a settlement.

This was the last official theatrical release for Cannon Films after going bankrupt in 1987.

This film was conceived to use the costumes and sets built for a Masters of the Universe (1987) sequel and a live action 'Spider-Man' film. Albert Pyun planned to shoot both projects simultaneously. Cannon Films had to cancel deals with Mattel and Marvel because of their financial troubles, and they needed to recoup the money spent on both projects. Pyun created the film's script, under the pseudonym of Kitty Chalmers, using two previous scripts, "Johnny Guitar" and "Alex Rain". Some network television channels still give the film's title as 'Masters of the Universe 2: Cyborg,' leading people to think it's a sequel.

Jean-Claude Van Damme re-edited the film, much as he did with Bloodsport (1988), to make the fight scenes more exciting and trim down the drama. Van Damme spent two months editing the film. He would do the same on Hard Target (1993)

Albert Pyun's original cut of "Cyborg" was much more stylized. It was in black-and-white, had a rock score, had more violence and had all of Jean-Claude Van Damme's dialogue - including extensive narration - dubbed by another actor. It was much more dark, violent and cynical. Cannon held a test screening of this version for a small audience and they hated it. Only one out of 100 people surveyed liked the film. Due to this, Albert Pyun was kicked off the film and Van Damme convinced producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus to instead let him and his producer friend, Sheldon Lettich, edit the film, as he had done with Bloodsport (1988), and asked them for 2 months. Cyborg was finally released 2 months later. That started a trend where virtually every movie of Pyun's, the next 12 or 13, was taken away from him by the studio and recut.