The remake was announced last year and has been in development for nearly three years at Aspyr. On June 30, Aspyr finalized a demo of the game, but the following week, the company fired design director Brad Prince and art director Jason Minor.
The studio told its employees that the demo "wasn’t where they wanted it to be and that the project would be paused." The problem might be the "disproportionate amount of time and money" put into the demo or the timeline. If previously, Aspyr planned to release the game by the end of 2022, now the developers speculate that a more realistic date would be 2025.