Almost all of the production staff and crew from "Scarface" were involved in the project. Screenwriter Oliver Stone redid the script, but has in later interviews commented that most of the rewrite merely consisted of replacing selected words from the original script with "bamboo" and "frolic". The only major supporting player to return was Steven Bauer, who again played the part of Manny. Several critics have noted that he was inexplicably dressed exactly like his character from "Scarface" and was not in panda costume, despite only communicating in "panda grunts" and facial gestures.