The Professor and the Madman

The Professor and the Madman (2019)

Timing: 2:4 (124 min)

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Release date

2019-03-07

Country

France, Ireland, Mexico, United States

Production

Voltage Pictures, Fastnet Films, 22h22, Caviar Antwerp NV, Definition Films, Zik Zak Filmworks, Fábrica de Cine

Genre

History, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Budget

$25 000 000

Revenue

$5 098 627

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Director

Farhad Safinia

Actors

Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Eddie Marsan, Natalie Dormer, Ioan Gruffudd, Steve Coogan, Jeremy Irvine, Brendan Patricks, Adam Fergus, Jennifer Ehle
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Scenario

Farhad Safinia, John Boorman

Producer

Mel Gibson, Bruce Davey, Gastón Pavlovich

Operator

Kasper Tuxen

Composer

Bear McCreary

Artist

Audition

Dan Hubbard

Editing

Dino Jonsäter
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• Mel Gibson purchased the rights to adapt Simon Winchester's book 'The Surgeon of Crowthorne' in 1999. Work on the adaptation took 17 years.
• Work on the film resulted in a legal dispute between Mel Gibson and the film company Voltage Pictures, as the company's management did not allow Gibson and director Farad Safinia to film on location in Oxford, UK. The film had already exceeded its initially approved budget and was behind schedule, so the studio ordered filming to take place in Ireland. Gibson and Safinia left the project, and one of the screenwriters, Todd Komarnicki, became the new director. Gibson and his company Iron Productions went to court, attempting to prevent the film's release, but their claim was dismissed, so Gibson had to settle for refusing to participate in the film's promotional campaign.
• The original title of the film translates to "The Professor and the Madman".