City of Ember

City of Ember (2008)

Timing: 1:30 (90 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2008-10-07

Country

United States

Production

Walden Media, Playtone

Genre

Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Budget

$55 000 000

Revenue

$17 929 684

Website

http://www.cityofember.com/

Director

Gil Kenan

Actors

Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Bill Murray, David Ryall, Tim Robbins, Mackenzie Crook, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Mary Kay Place, Toby Jones, Lucinda Dryzek
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Scenario

Producer

Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, Steven Shareshian, John D. Schofield, Diana Choi

Operator

Xavier Grobet

Composer

Andrew Lockington

Artist

Audition

Gail Stevens, David Rubin, Richard Hicks

Editing

Zach Staenberg, Adam P. Scott
All team (48)

• The film is based on the novel "The City of Ember: Escape" by Jeanne DuPrau (2003).
• The rights to adapt the novel were acquired by Tom Hanks' production company Playtone back in 2004. At that time, they also secured an option for a sequel based on the second part of the trilogy, but all such plans fell through after the film's complete failure at the box office.
• The film became the last acting role for 86-year-old British actress Liz Smith at the time, who announced the end of her long acting career in July 2009.
• The main filming location was an abandoned paint hall at the Harland and Wolf shipyard on the site known as Titanic’s Quarters, named after the famous ocean liner built there. The general view of the underground city was recreated there, and there were so many various small additional filming locations that some of them remained practically unused.
• Filming took place from June to October 2007.
• The film is based on Jeanne DuPrau's novel "The City of Ember: Escape" (2003).