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The Great Wall (film)

The Great Wall
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Traditional 長城
Simplified 长城
Mandarin Cháng Chéng
Directed by Zhang Yimou
Produced by
Screenplay by
Story by
Starring
Music by Ramin Djawadi
Cinematography
Edited by Craig Wood
Production
company
Distributed by
Release date
  • December 6, 2016 (2016-12-06) (Beijing)
  • December 15, 2016 (2016-12-15) (China)
  • February 17, 2017 (2017-02-17) (United States)
Running time
104 minutes
Country
  • United States
  • China
Language
  • English
  • Mandarin
Budget $150 million
Box office $219.2 million

The Great Wall is a 2016 epic historical fiction action-adventure monster film directed by Zhang Yimou and written by Tony Gilroy, Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro, Max Brooks, Edward Zwick, and Marshall Herskovitz. The film stars Matt Damon, Jing Tian, Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe and Andy Lau.

Principal photography began on March 30, 2015, in Qingdao, China. The film was released in China on December 15, 2016, by Le Vision Pictures and China Film Group Corporation and is scheduled to be released in the United States on February 17, 2017, by Universal Pictures. It has grossed $219 million worldwide.

In the time of the Song dynasty during the reign of the Renzong Emperor, a few miles north of the Great Wall, a mercenary group originally consisting of twenty men searching for black powder are pursued by Khitan bandits, who have already killed some of the men. Upon escaping they seek refuge in a cave but are then attacked by an unknown monster, leaving only William (Matt Damon) and Tovar (Pedro Pascal) alive, with the former having slashed off the monster's hand. The two decide to bring the arm with them. The next day, they stumble upon the Great Wall and are taken prisoner by Chinese soldiers of a secretive military sect called the Nameless Order, led by General Shao (Zhang Hanyu) and Strategist Wang (Andy Lau).


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