Vivian Brasch, Luke Hollman, and Kevin Shayer were originally cast as Lurli Stiltner, Roger Stiltner, and Edgar Stiltner. Kevin Shayer dropped out early in pre-production due to scheduling conflicts, Vivian Brasch and Luke Hollman were eventually replaced, but make appearances as Churchmembers in the film.
Matthew Greene turned down the role of Edgar. Mihran Konanyan was interested in playing the role, but Ansel Faraj rejected the idea.
'Evelyn Hammid' was considered for the role of Lurli.
In the very first outline of the script, Bud Stiltner was a former stage magician and his family was planning on killing him to get his money, but during the actual scripting stage, this idea was dropped.