Lou Diamond Phillips spent time with Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman and his tribe to help him prepare to play a Native American character.
Despite being set in Philadelphia, a majority of the picture was actually lensed in Toronto, to cut down on cost.
Kiefer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips would later have another uneasy alliance in the first season of 24 (2001), where Sutherland's character also frequently goes undercover.
During production, the film was titled "Lakota" but was later changed by Universal, the domestic distributor, to "Renegades" to make it sound more like an action movie.
Kiefer Sutherland and Jami Gertz also starred together in The Lost Boys (1987)