The Great Wall (film)
2016 film by Zhang Yimou / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Great Wall (Chinese: 長城) is a 2016 monster film directed by Zhang Yimou, with a screenplay by Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro and Tony Gilroy, from a story by Max Brooks, Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz. An American and Chinese co-production starring Matt Damon, Jing Tian, Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe, and Andy Lau, the plot centers on two European mercenary warriors (Matt Damon and Pedro Pascal) imprisoned by imperial Chinese forces within the Great Wall of China after arriving in search of gunpowder, eventually joining forces with the Chinese to help combat an alien threat. The Great Wall is Zhang's first English-language film.[5]
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| Traditional Chinese | 長城 |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Cháng Chéng |
| Directed by | Zhang Yimou |
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| Music by | Ramin Djawadi |
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Running time | 103 minutes[3] |
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| Budget | $150 million[4] |
| Box office | $334.9 million[3] |
Principal photography for the film began on March 30, 2015, in Qingdao, China, and it premiered in Beijing on December 6, 2016. It was released by China Film Group in China on December 16, 2016, the United States on February 17, 2017 by Universal Pictures, and in Japan on April 14, 2017 by Toho-Towa. The film, which received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics,[6] grossed $334.9 million worldwide and was considered a box-office bomb for losing up to $75 million.