
"With Neil, I'm always seeing pictures, and I'm always reminded of him, and all that stuff, and that was difficult, but now that it's been a year, I find that I think of the good times that we had together more than the sadness. It's an anniversary that you process, and it becomes a little easier to handle. "For me, that first year of grieving is the milestone, and once you get past that, I think you… I don't know. And then COVID hit, and now we're all sort of in a different mental space. "I didn't play for quite a long time at all music just didn't seem that important. "Same thing happened when (Neil's) daughter passed away," he explained. So we thought that we would be prepared for the end when it came, and we weren't. Well, lots of people knew about it, but it wasn't public, the information. Neil was sick for three and a half years, and no one really knew about it. And I think both Geddy and I expected to be better with it. You lose anybody that's close, it's a profound thing. "As you can imagine, we were very, very close. He can be seen limping throughout the remainder of the film.Reflecting more upon Neil Peart’s passing and how it affected him and Geddy, Alex continued: "After Neil passed, it was very difficult to get inspired or motivated to play," he said. Additionally, the actor playing Eliza's father broke his leg trying to control the horses. Marcus Gilbert as David Walker pulled Kathleen Beller as Eliza Williams to safety. The rain was unexpected and the crew continued filming as the wagon actually slipped off the road. The scene 41 minutes in when Eliza's wagon slips in the mud was not staged. Parts of the film were shot in Salt Lake City as well as New York, Wyoming, and Nauvoo, Illinois.

It was replaced in March 2000 by The Testaments of One Fold and One Shepherd. In addition to screenings in the JSMB adjacent to Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, it was shown at the visitors' centers at the church's Washington D.C. After the building's reopening, Legacy premiered on July 3, 1993. The film was initially produced to be shown in the Legacy Theatre of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building (JSMB), following the building's complete remodel.

The characters are fictional, though the events they experience are historical. Legacy depicts the life of two recent converts from the 1830s to the 1890s. Legacy: A Mormon Journey is a 53-minute film produced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
