 He signed a three-picture deal with Vestron that included "Salome's Last Dance", "Lair of the White Worm" and "The Rainbow".Russell says the film was budgeted at ₤2.5 million but Vestron insisted he lose half a million from the budget.He rewrote the script to lose a dream sequence and a crowd sequence and decided to shoot the film within London and not the Lake District as originally planned.