Today You Die

Contains footage taken from three other movies: "The Order" (for the rappelling scene), "Top of the World" (for the truck chase), and "Undisputed" (for the prison riot scene).

In the scene where Steven Seagal's character beats Robert Miano's character, that wasn't acting. Seagal disliked Miano because his passes on actress Mari Morrow were turned down, and she was going out with Miano. Seagal did break Miano's arm - the shot were the arm is broken and Miano's yelling in pain, were real. Miano took the production company to court and the matter was settled for an undisclosed sum of money.

In a 2020 interview, director Don E. FauntLeRoy stated that producer Avi Lerner sent him to Steven Seagal with a copy of the script and orders to get him signed on. That accomplished, FauntLeRoy returned home only to be immediately contacted by Seagal, who had fired the original director and camera operator and demanded that FauntLeRoy be brought in to direct. Eventually an agreement was worked out wherein FauntLeRoy would only direct scenes involving Seagal while someone else handled the rest of the film - which, when taking Seagal's habit of keeping working hours to a minimum, meant that FauntLeRoy spent very little time on the film but still earned a directing credit.

During production of this film, star Steven Seagal and producer Avi Lerner had a huge disagreement resulting in legal action some years later. Lerner accused Seagal of breach of contract by constantly turning up late on set and rewriting the script whilst Seagal made allegations of fraud against Lerner by claiming he had not been paid properly during production (hence why he protested by turning up late) and that his contact allowed him input into the script. Whilst the case was settled out of court it left a lot of resentment with Seagal. Several years later, Sylvester Stallone contacted Seagal and asked him if he would like to appear in his 'Expendables' film franchise, Seagal said that whilst he had no problems with appearing opposite Stallone or any of main cast, he still held a huge grudge against Lerner (who was producing the film) and was going to have to politely decline.