Promo pic of Chuck Norris as American Ninja! Amusing.

Negotiations usually fall through due to money.

On the UK Blu-Ray for Invasion USA the co-writer, James Bruner, says he was hired to work with Chuck to write a film called American Ninja. Chuck noted he did not want to make a Ninja movie again, so Bruner came up with the idea of a script where Chuck plays a plainclothes covert operative fighting against terrorists in an operation codenamed "Operation American Ninja". Bruner and Norris presented the script to Menham Golan; Golan said that he liked the script, but it could not be filmed or released as American Ninja. Accordingly Bruner and Norris script was slightly tweaked and filmed as Invasion USA, and Cannon hired Dudikoff to make a film with the American Ninja title. Bruner also noted he did some uncredited but paid script doctoring on American Ninja, so he did pretty well out of the whole thing!