The Painted Veil
Sometimes the greatest journey is the distance between two people.
Country
Production
The Mark Gordon Company, China Film Co-Production Corporation, Salon Films (HK) Ltd., Yari Film Group, Bob Yari Productions, Stratus Film Co., Syndicate Films, Warner Independent Pictures, Class 5 Films, Emotion Pictures, Warner China Film HG Corporation, W.I.P., The Colleton Company, Dragon Studios
Budget
$34 000 000
Box office
$26 910 847
Director
Actors
Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Liev Schreiber, Toby Jones, Diana Rigg, Anthony Wong, Xia Yu, Juliet Howland, Ian Renwick, Bin Li
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Bob Yari, Sara Colleton, Antonia Barnard, Jean-François Fonlupt, Yasmine Golchan, Ming Beaver Kwei, Wang Hong, Mark Gordon
Camera operator
Stuart Dryburgh
Composer
Artist
Juhua Tu
Audition
Ellen Lewis
Editing
Alexandre de Franceschi
Whole Team (35)
Whole Team (35)
Short description
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
What's left behind the scenes
- Filming took place between late 2005 and early 2006 in the outskirts of Beijing and Shanghai.
- Carolina Link once developed this project and also worked on her own version of the script.
- The film is based on W. Somerset Maugham's novel *The Painted Veil* (1925), which was later republished in Russia under the title *The Patterned Veil*.
- Filming took place in China, near Beijing and Shanghai, from late 2005 to early 2006.
- Initially, the project was in development at "Yari's Stratus Film" studio. When Mark Gill, the former president of "Yari's Stratus Film", moved to "Warner Independent", he also brought this project with him.
- Edward Norton suffered a back injury during filming.
- Edward Norton personally approved Naomi Watts for the role in the film.
- Filming took place in late 2005 – early 2006 in the vicinity of Beijing and Shanghai.
- In the scene where Walter Fain tastes water from the river, he holds a tin can with a rope attached. Firstly, the rope changes position between shots. Secondly, when Norton's character pours water from the tin can into a glass container, it's visible that the water doesn't enter it, but in the next shot, from a different angle, the glass container is full of water.
- Nicole Kidman was considered for the lead role.
- During filming, Edward Norton suffered a back injury.
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