The film, marking the directorial debut of Tom Dey, was written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. A sequel, Shanghai Knights, was released in 2003, with David Dobkin as director.

I expected Shanghai Knights to be just another money-grubbing ... of a crowd-pleaser as Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in the Road movies, and it's ages since I came out of a sequel actually looking ...

"Shanghai Knights." When a Chinese rebel murders Chon's estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy make their way to London with revenge on their minds.