In 2014 writer/director Michael Maren heard Chris Belden reading from his novel "Shriver" in a Massachusetts bookstore. He optioned the material on the spot.
Shriver was filmed on the University of Redlands campus in California.
Filming was originally begun in February of 2020 and was shut down in mid-March 2020 because of COVID. It was resumed more than a year later and completed in April of 2021.
Michael Shannon and Don Johnson previously starred in Knives Out (2019), and Kate Hudson was in Glass Onion (2022).