The Painted Veil

The Painted Veil (2006)

Timing: 2:5 (125 min)

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Release date

2006-12-09

Country

Canada, China, United States

Production

The Mark Gordon Company, Yari Film Group, Bob Yari Productions, Stratus Film Co., Class 5 Films, Emotion Pictures, Warner China Film HG Corporation, W.I.P., The Colleton Company, Dragon Studios

Genre

Romance, Drama

Budget

$34 000 000

Revenue

$26 910 847

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Director

John Curran

Actors

Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Liev Schreiber, Diana Rigg, Toby Jones, Anthony Wong, Juliet Howland, Ian Renwick, Bin Li, Zoe Telford
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Scenario

Producer

Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Bob Yari, Sara Colleton, Antonia Barnard, Jean-François Fonlupt, Yasmine Golchan, Ming Beaver Kwei, Wang Hong, Mark Gordon

Operator

Stuart Dryburgh

Composer

Alexandre Desplat

Artist

Audition

Ellen Lewis

Editing

Alexandre de Franceschi
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• 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*.
• Nicole Kidman was considered for the lead role.
• Carolina Link once developed this project and also worked on her own version of the script.
• Edward Norton personally approved Naomi Watts for the role in the film.
• 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.
• During filming, Edward Norton suffered a back injury.
• Filming took place in China, near Beijing and Shanghai, from late 2005 to early 2006.
• 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.
• Edward Norton suffered a back injury during filming.
• Filming took place from late 2005 to early 2006 in the vicinity of Beijing and Shanghai.
• Filming took place in late 2005 – early 2006 in the vicinity of Beijing and Shanghai.