In 1994 director Tony Scott was sent an article from the British newspaper "The Mail on Sunday" by his business manager Neville Shulman. The article, written by Sacha Gervasi and titled "My gun for hire: Why a movie star's rebel daughter turned into a bounty hunter", was about an English woman named Domino Harvey who was working as a bounty hunter, apprehending fugitives who had skipped bail for the Celes King Bail Bond agency in South Central Los Angeles. While Harvey was one of the few female bounty hunters, what caught the attention of Shulman and Scott was that she was the daughter of actor Laurence Harvey.