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The Great Wall (DVD)

The Great Wall (Chinese: 长城) 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 around a European mercenary warrior (Matt Damon) 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.

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 by Universal Pictures, and in Japan on April 14 by United International Pictures. The film received mostly negative reviews from critics, but received some praise for its action sequences. Although it grossed $335 million worldwide, the film was still considered a box office bomb due to its high production and marketing costs, with losses as high as $75 million.

Plot

European mercenaries, including Irishman William Garin and Spaniard Pero Tovar, travel to China during the reign of the Song dynasty s Renzong Emperor, searching for the secret to gunpowder. A few miles north of the Great Wall, they are attacked by a monster. Only Garin and Tovar survive; they sever the monster s arm and bring it with them. Upon reaching the Wall, they are taken prisoner by soldiers of the Nameless Order, led by General Shao and Strategist Wang. The Nameless Order exists to combat alien monsters called Tao Tie, which arrived from a meteorite and attack once every sixty years. While examining the severed monster arm, the Order s commanders are surprised by the monsters first assault, which has come one week early.

Shortly after, a horde of Tao Tie assails the Wall. Both sides sustain heavy losses before the monsters queen aborts the attack. During the battle, Garin and Tovar are freed by Ballard, another European who came east twenty-five years earlier in search of gunpowder; detained, he now serves as an English and Latin teacher. Garin and Tovar display amazing battle skills, saving the life of young warrior Peng Yong, then slaying two monsters, earning them the Order s respect. The three Europeans secretly plan to steal gunpowder and flee during the next monster attack.

That night, two Tao Tie reach the top of the Wall. General Shao is killed, placing Commander Lin in charge of the Nameless Order. Around this time, an envoy from the capital arrives with an ancient scroll which suggests that the monsters are pacified by magnets. Wang believes the stone Garin carries enabled him to slay the Tao Tie he fought at the cave. To test the hypothesis, Garin suggests they capture a Tao Tie alive and agrees to help. This delays his escape plans, angering Tovar, who nevertheless assists Garin despite Ballard s protests.

During the next attack, the Tao Tie are numerous enough to cause Lin to resort to using arrows equipped with black powder, whose capabilities had been kept secret from the Westerners until now. They capture a living Tao Tie and prove the theory. However, the Imperial envoy claims the monster and takes it to the capital to present to the Emperor.

A tunnel is discovered at the base of the Wall; the previous attacks had been a distraction so that the Tao Tie could dig the tunnel. While Lin investigates, Tovar and Ballard steal a supply of black powder and escape, knocking Garin unconscious for trying to stop them. Garin is arrested by the Nameless Order, and is locked up in the Wall. Some distance away, Ballard betrays and abandons Tovar, but is captured by bandits, who accidentally kill Ballard and themselves after igniting the powder. At the capital, the envoy presents the captive Tao Tie to the Emperor and his entourage, but it awakens and reveals its position to its queen, who signals the Tao Tie to attack.

The Order rushes to the capital. Lin orders the use of hot-air balloons, and sets Garin free before leaving. Wang tells him to warn the outside world, but Garin boards the last balloon with Peng and Wang. They arrive just in time to save Lin from being devoured. They land in the Emperor s palace, where Wang proposes killing the queen by tying explosives to the captured Tao Tie and giving it meat to be delivered to the queen. While approaching the site, a horde of Tao Tie attack the band, and Peng sacrifices himself to save the others.

After releasing the Tao Tie, Lin and Garin climb a tower so that Garin can detonate the explosives with an arrow. Wang sacrifices himself to buy time for Lin and Garin to reach the upper floors. Two of Garin s arrows are deflected by the Tao Tie queen s bodyguards, but Garin throws the magnet into the horde, creating a gap in the shields, allowing Lin s spear to get through. The queen is killed, and the rest of the horde is paralyzed. With the threat eliminated, Garin is allowed to return home and elects to take Tovar (whom the Nameless Order recaptured) with him instead of a reward of black powder, much to Tovar s annoyance.

Cast

Matt Damon as William Garin (威廉·加林), a European mercenary.
Jing Tian as Commander Lin Mae (林梅; Lín Méi), the leader of the Crane Troop
Pedro Pascal as Pero Tovar (佩罗· 托瓦尔), a European mercenary.
Willem Dafoe as Sir Ballard (巴拉德), a European adventurer-turned-teacher in China.
Andy Lau as Strategist Wang (王军师), the Strategist and War Counselor for the Nameless Order.
Zhang Hanyu as General Shao (邵殿帅), the leader of the Bear Troop and General of the Nameless Order.
Lu Han as Peng Yong (彭勇), a soldier in the Bear Troop.
Eddie Peng as Commander Wu (吴将军), head of the Tiger Troop.
Kenny Lin as Commander Chen (陈将军), head of the Eagle Troop.
Karry Wang as The Emperor
Zheng Kai as Shen (沈)
Huang Xuan as Commander Deng (邓将军), head of the Deer Troop.
Cheney Chen as Commander of the Imperial Guard
Numan Acar as Najid

Production

The company and I have been preparing for Great Wall for a long time. It is an action blockbuster. The reason I took the Great Wall project is that there have been requests in the last 10 or 20 years. Now the production is big enough and really appealing. And, very importantly, it has Chinese elements in it.

Zhang Yimou, director

Principal photography began on March 30, 2015, on location in Qingdao. It is the most expensive film ever shot entirely in China.

Three walls were built during production as they could not shoot on the actual Great Wall. During the filmmaking, the director said the most impressive part for him was the presence of so many translators to handle communication, as he assembled an international crew for the filming. More than 100 on-set translators worked with the various cast and crew members.

Music

The film s score is composed by Ramin Djawadi. The first track called Nameless Order was released on December 14, 2016.

Release

The Great Wall was released in China on December 16, 2016. It was released on February 17, 2017 in the United States by Universal Pictures in 3D, 2D and IMAX 3D. In the Philippines, the film was released by United International Pictures through Columbia Pictures Philippines on January 25, 2017.

Marketing

The Great Wall released its first trailer in July 2016. The trailer shows views of the Great Wall in fog, thousands of soldiers on a battlefield ready for war, and a mysterious monster, as well as the roster views of the cast, including Matt Damon and Andy Lau.

A song from Wang Leehom and Tan Weiwei was released on November 15, 2016, to promote The Great Wall. Bridge of Fate was composed and produced by Wang Leehom, with lyrics written by Vincent Fang, a long time collaborator of singer-songwriter Jay Chou. Female rocker Tan Weiwei joined Wang for a duet, but with two different vocal styles. Wang sang pop, while Tan performed a traditional Qinqiang – a folk Chinese opera style from Shaanxi Province.

Chinese pop diva Jane Zhang released another new English song, Battle Field, and its promotional music video, for The Great Wall on November 22, 2016. The song was composed by King Logan and Maroon 5 s keyboardist PJ Morton, and written by Josiah JoJo Martin and Jane Zhang. It was produced by Timbaland.

Universal Pictures and Legendary Entertainment debuted eight character posters of the film on November 17, 2016. All in all, Legendary spent $110–120 million on promotion and advertising worldwide.

Legendary Pictures made a strategic decision to work with Chinese talent and investors, and altered their production plan to better cater to Chinese audiences. The Great Wall, funded by Legendary, China Film Group, and Universal Pictures was an attempt at a joint production between Chinese and American talent. The film was directed by a big-time Chinese director, Zhang Yimou, and starred Hollywood stars Matt Damon and Willem Dafoe alongside Chinese film stars in an attempt to capture Chinese audiences. Although the film was considered to be a box office failure in China, the intent was clear and compelling. Other film studios such as Pixar have been making these minor adjustments to appeal to international audiences for years.

The film was released for digital download on May 9, 2017, and on DVD, Blu-ray on May 23, 2017.

Reception

Box office

The Great Wall grossed $45.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $289.4 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $334.9 million, against a production budget of $150 million.

In China, The Great Wall opened on December 16, 2016, and made $24.3 million on its first day and $67.4 million in its opening weekend. In the second weekend, it grossed $26.1 million. The film went on to gross $170.9 million at the Chinese box office, which is considered a disappointment.

In the United States and Canada, the film opened alongside A Cure for Wellness and Fist Fight, and was projected to gross $17–19 million from about 3,200 theaters in its opening weekend. The film made $970,000 at 2,470 theaters from Thursday night previews, and $5.9 million on its first day. It went on to open to $18.1 million, finishing third at the box office, behind holdovers The Lego Batman Movie and Fifty Shades Darker, and eventually grossing $45.2 million. The film joined Terminator Genisys, Warcraft and fellow 2017 release xXx: Return of Xander Cage as the only Hollywood films to earn $100 million in China without making $100 million in the United States.

In March 2017, The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the film was likely to lose about $75 million due to its underwhelming performance theatrically, as its performance in most major markets, including the United States and Canada, was disappointing. The loss incurred by all four studios varied, with Universal Pictures, which funded about 25% of the film s $150 million production budget, losing around $10 million. The rest of the investors, Legendary Entertainment, China Film Group and Le Vision Pictures, will have an equal loss. Universal also covered almost all of the film s global marketing expenses of more than $80 million, so the studio will incur an even more heavy loss. Ancillary revenues from home entertainment sales and TV rights, may offset some of the losses. In March 2018, Deadline Hollywood calculated the film lost the studio $74.5 million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues.

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, the film has an approval rating of 35% based on 234 reviews, and an average rating of 4.90/10. The website s critical consensus reads, For a Yimou Zhang film featuring Matt Damon and Willem Dafoe battling ancient monsters, The Great Wall is neither as exciting nor as entertainingly bonkers as one might hope. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 42 out of 100, based on 40 critics, indicating mixed or average reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of B on an A+ to F scale.

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, writing for The A.V. Club, gave the film a B− on an A to F scale, saying: There is no logical reason for the film to climax in a tower of stained glass that paints Lin Mae and William in psychedelic Suspiria lighting, but boy does it look gorgeous in 3-D. Simon Abrams, a contributor for RogerEbert.com, gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, summarizing: The Great Wall is unlike any American blockbuster you ve seen, a conservative movie with action set pieces that are actually inventive and thrilling enough to be worthwhile. See it on as big a screen as you can.

Clarence Tsui, writing for The Hollywood Reporter, gave the film a negative review, saying: The Great Wall is easily the least interesting and involving blockbuster of the respective careers of both its director and star.

In 2021 Matt Damon said his daughter had mocked him for the movie. She made a point of calling it The Wall , and when Damon corrects her with The Great Wall , she remarks that there was nothing great about it.

Controversies

White protagonist in an East Asian setting

Because some of the characters, including a main character played by Matt Damon, are white in a film set in medieval China, the film was accused of whitewashing and using the white savior narrative prior to its release. Ann Hornaday, chief film critic for The Washington Post, wrote that early concerns about Damon playing a white savior in the film turn out to be unfounded: his character, a mercenary soldier, is heroic, but also clearly a foil for the superior principles and courage of his Chinese allies. Jonathan Kim, in a review for the Huffington Post, writes that having seen The Great Wall, I can say that ... on the charge of The Great Wall insulting the Chinese and promoting white superiority, I say: Not Guilty. The question of whether The Great Wall is a white savior movie is a bit trickier, but I m still going to say Not Guilty. ... On the charge of whitewashing, I say: Not Guilty. Deadline Hollywood noted that audience surveys by PostTrak indicated that Asians were turning out to see the film and constituted its second largest demographic group at 26% (behind Caucasians at 43%).

Director Zhang said that Damon was not playing a role that was intended for a Chinese actor. He criticized detractors for not being armed with the facts and stated that In many ways The Great Wall is the opposite of what is being suggested. For the first time, a film deeply rooted in Chinese culture, with one of the largest Chinese casts ever assembled, is being made at tentpole scale for a world audience. I believe that is a trend that should be embraced by our industry.

Chinese critical response

The film s largest investor, the Wanda Group (owner of Legendary Pictures) has a good relationship with the Chinese Communist Party. As of July 2017, users of film review website Douban rated The Great Wall 4.9 out of 10. On Maoyan, another film review aggregator, the professional score is 4.9 out of 10. On December 28, 2016, the Communist Party s official media outlet People s Daily published an article on its website severely criticizing Douban and Maoyan for doing harm to the Chinese movie industry with their bad reviews. On the same day, Maoyan took down its professional score for The Great Wall.

Condition	New
Actor	Charles Roven, Dc Young Fly, Jon Jashni, Lil Baby, Lil Yachty, Thomas Tull, Tony Gilroy
Publisher	Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Published Date	2017-01-01
Age Group	Adult
Recording Studio	Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Format	DVD
Brand	Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Rating MPA	Pg-13
Amazon ASIN	B06VSPXKH9
UPC / EAN	025192302824
Year	2016
ReleaseDate	2017-02-17
RuntimeMins	103
RuntimeStr	1h 43min
Awards	Awards, 3 wins & 2 nominations
Directors	Yimou Zhang
Writers	Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro, Tony Gilroy
Stars	Matt Damon, Tian Jing, Willem Dafoe
Produced by	Alex Gartner, Eric Hedayat, Alex Hedlund, Jon Jashni, Peikang La, Peter Loehr, Charles Roven, Jillian Share, Thomas Tull, E. Bennett Walsh, Wang Zhang, Zhao Zhang
Music by	Ramin Djawadi
Cinematography by	Stuart Dryburgh, Xiaoding Zhao
Film Editing by	Mary Jo Markey, Craig Wood
Casting By	John Papsidera, Victoria Thomas
Production Design by	John Myhre
Art Direction by	Joe Celli, Sherrie Dai, Paul Gelinas, Colin Gibson, Helen Jarvis, Adam Wheatley
Set Decoration by	Gordon Sim
Costume Design by	Mayes C. Rubeo
Makeup Department	Mathieu Baptista, Jana Carboni, Paul Engelen, Daniel Lawson Johnston, Ana Lozano, Iván Pohárnok, Alex Rouse, Maralyn Sherman, Shanying Tao, Tracey Wells, Felicity Wright, Xiaohai Yang
Production Management	Holly Beals, Sean Cooney, Noelle Green, Alexandra Guillot, Eric Hedayat, Yang Hongtao, Austin Lapierre, Kwame Parker, Jason Pomerantz, Jake Rice, Graham Stumpf, Valerie Flueger Veras, Hong Wang, Ty Warren
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director	Ruixuan Bai, Danielle Blake, Maguy R. Cohen, Kevin Feng Ke, Songyun Han, Sylvia Liu, Scott Lovelock, Wen Ren, George Marshall Ruge, Greg Schroeder, P.J. Voeten, Scott Wang, Sophia Wang, Richard Wilson, Jinzhan Zhang, Amy Zhou
Art Department	Mohamed AbouAhmed, Serge Archambault, Jeffrey Ault, Kris Bergthorson, Gavin Boyle, Martin Bruveris, Philippe Cabrie, Luis F. Carrasco, Joel Chang, Stephen Craig, Kelton Cram, Genelle Eaglen, Thomas Fairley, Jia Fang, Luke Fisher, Cody Gillies, Sean Ginevan, Lea Golding, Marie-Eve Groleau, Jeremy Hanna, Anson Jew, Matt Jordin, Hana Sooyeon Kim, Hans Laliberté, Simone Leclerc, Ben Mauro, Chris Menges, Adam J Middleton, Liam Moore, Tyler Page, Missy Parker, Christian Pearce, Eduardo Pena, Heather Pollington, Dominique Pottier, Hynie Rasch, Gillian Richards, Christian Scheurer, Nathan Schroeder, Dena Skalin, Emil Snyman, Aaron Sowd, Kalya Sowden, Chriss Stevenson, Karl Tan, Nicolas Vallet, Simon Webber, Anthony Winn, Licheng Xu, Hsiao Yang, John Howard, Roger Robinson, Paul Tobin, Cole Zeal
Sound Department	Cameron Barker, Christopher Barron, Beau Borders, Jonathan Borland, Jamie Branquinho, Shanti Burn, Richard Burnette, Sean Byrne, Danny Caccavo, Lisa Chino, Iwan de Kuijper, Shasha Dong, Danielle Dupre, Teresa Eckton, Frank E. Eulner, Sam François, Ryan J. Frias, Pascal Garneau, Markus Glunz, Richard Gould, Michael Hough, Alejandro Jaramillo, Devon Kelley, Mark Kenna, James Likowski, Josh Lowden, Dmitri Makarov, Chris Manning, Kyrsten Mate, Aurélien Mauro, Stuart McCowan, Michael McLoughlin, Steve Morris, Jon Null, Thomas J. O'Connell, Kimberly Patrick, Bryan Pennington, Carrie Perry, Tony Pilkington, Mark Purcell, Will Ralston, John Roesch, Renee Russo, Gary Rydstrom, Michael Semanick, Tony Sereno, Robert Shoup, Unsun Song, Brian Tarlecki, Dennie Thorpe, Jana Vance, Geoff Vaughan, Tony Villaflor, Bryon Williams, Doug Winningham, Mike Xu, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Ryan Young, Ernesto Cantillo, Lisa Chino, Blake Collins, Richard Gould, Noah Katz, Oleg Kulchytskyi, Leff Lefferts, Scott Levine, Jifu Li, Dmitri Makarov, Edgar Meza, David Peifer
Special Effects by	Andrew Baker, Grant Bensley, Justin Bertges, Gregory Oren Bryant, Paul Deely, Tim Domett, Florence Dosdane, B. David Duke, Andrew Durno, Jake Evill, Ben Fairless, Bevan Fraser, Will Furneaux, Rob Gillies, Anastasha Guillot, Allen Hall, Matthew Hall, Luke Hawker, John Howard, Sanit Klamchanuan, Mark Koivu, Axel Kremer, Cassandra Lopez, Joaquin Loyzaga, Heidi Mistic, Dordi Moen, Darcy O'Brien, Tom Pilling, Ceres Regnum, Jamie Rencen, Adam Wesley Ross, Liam Sherry, Carlos Slater, Pati Ah Sue, Jack Taylor, Richard Taylor, Bob Williams, Marco Wuest, Fan Zhang, Karin Åberg
Visual Effects by	Mike Accettura, Ritesh Aggarwal, Stanley Joseph Aghori, Ashwin Agrawal, Adam Ahlgren, Tanseer Ahmed, Sergio Alarcon, Togrul Alekperov, Andreas Alesik, William Algar-Chuklin, Daniil Alikov, Alexandre Alin, David W. Allen, Richard Almodovar, Cody Amos, Dan Lindskov Andersen, Arild Anfinnsen, Siau Yene Ang, Christian Antolin, Tomas Ariño Sobotkiewicz, Rajeshsai Athmuri, Marc Aubry, Sunny Awale, Murat Ayasli, Nor Azman, Tigran Badalyan, Prem Baddam, Mostafa Badran, Katharine Baird, Garry Baker, Kevin Baker, Michael John Baker, Subhrojyoti Banerjee, Nicholas Barnes, Tom Barrett, Michel Barrière, Waldemar Bartkowiak, Ryan Basa, Ahmed Basha, Sam Bassett, Vojtech Batko, Ines Baumgartner, Nathan Behmlander, Martin Benes, Vera Bennett, Michaël Bentitou, Sylvain Berger, Michel Bergeron, Kate Berry, Louise Bertrand, Miguel Berube Ouellet, Prashanth Bhagavan, Sameer Bhoyar, Thomas Biering, Prasanjit Biswas, Jourdan Biziou, James Bleakley, Sathish Kumar Bodicherla, Jason Bohbot, Nicholas Bolden, Cédric Bonnaffoux, Maryse Bouchard, Mathieu Boudreau, Jason Bowers, Sreekanth Boyapati, Kirstin Bradfield, Ben Breckenridge, Phil Brennan, David Brickley, Caroline Brien, Stéphan Brisson, Andy Brown, Julie Brown, Marc Brzezicki, Izet Buco, Romain Buignet, Markus Burki, Caroline Bélisle, Jacob Børsting, Goncalo Cabaca, Gem Ronn Cadiz, Steve Cady, Beverley Joy Camero, Huseyin Caner, Jeff Capogreco, Owen Cartagena, Federico Cascinelli, Stephen Casey, Ethan Casper, Tom Castellani, Cynthia Rodriguez del Castillo, Michal Cavoj, Elohim Cervantes Tampus, Julien Chabot, Audrey Sook Yan Chan, Karhoe Chan, Yuk Leung Mo Chan, François Chancrin, Jerly Chang, Wang Chang, Jo-Wan Chao, Matthieu Chardonnet, Chin Chee Cheah, Gene Chee, Sujun Chen, Camela Cheng, Yasmine Cheng, Eugene Matthew Cheong, Peter Chesloff, Kai Hsin Chin, Young Choi, Tim Chou, Graham Churchill, Martin Cicmanec, Sasha Ciolac, Joseph Civitate, Bodie Clare, Jimi Clark, Richard Clement-Tam, Félix Clément, David Cole, Tony Cole, Lara Collins, Tony Como, David Connely, J. 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Reagan, Tamara Savia Rebello, James Rees, Ralph Reinle, Michael Rich, Nathan Rich, Sébastien Rioux, Andrew Ritchie, Norberto Ritter, David Roberge, Sascha Robitzki, Cabral Rock, Shayne Rodway, Matt Roe, Vinay Krishan Rohilla, Petr Rohr, Steven Roste, Rajat Roy, Danielle Rubin, Anna Harantova Ruizlova, Matthew Dean Russell, Olivier Ryard, Karim Sahai, Paul Saint-Hilaire, Petr Sajner, Marco Salvatori, Kevin San, Adolfo Sanchez, Sable Sanjiv, Francesco Sansoni, Katy Savoie, Rahul Saxena, Kai Schadwinkel, Gunther Schatz, Sam Schwier, Alex Scollay, Prathap Sekar, David Serrano, Richard Servello, Apoorva Shah, Hemang Shah, Samsher Shaikh, Prateek Sharma, Alyssia Sharpe, Betty Shaw, Micha Sher, Cy Shih, Cy Man-Yeung Shih, Misato Shinohara, Ahmed Shoaib, Joe Sico, Raman Siddharthan, Benjamin Siebmann, Elvin Siew, Vinay Pratap Singh, Niraj Kumar Sinha, Ali Ashif Sk, Brian Smallwood, Patrick Smith, Tefft Smith, Ben Snow, Benjamin Soh, Glorivette Somoza, Marie-Eve St-Amour, Guillaume St-Aubin-Seers, Jiri Stamfest, Randy Starr, Adrian Steel, Mark Stern, Jubinville Steve, Contrail Storey, Rosalind Stratton, Valentin Struklec, Elfar Sverrisson, Tibor Szentkuti, Seow Tai Tee, Sylvie Talbot, Anthony Tan, Daniel Tan, Janice A.L. Tan, Yannick Tan, Dolorès Tardif, Renald Taurusdi, Shih Ming Tay, Joseph Taylor, Livia Teng, Alexandre Tessier, Mikael Theander, Philippe Theroux, Robert Thomason, David Thomlison, Elaine Essex Thompson, Mark Thorley, Ben Tillmann, Rohan Tirkey, Vladimir Tkachenko, Lachlan Tolley, Andre Tong, Peter Toufidis, Kallan Treadwell, Anne Tremblay, Marco Tremblay, Véronique Tremblay, Jillian Tsai, Felix Turesson, Les Turner, Nadia Tzuo, Vaclav Uhlir, Emily Unruh, Emily Vaillancourt, Noor Valibhoy, Salvatore Valone, Benito Vargas, Sherin Varghese, Murali Veera, Valérie Villeneuve, Dominic Vincent, Signe Vinther, Tomas Vondrasek, Wes Walcott, Adam Walker, Matthew Robert Walker, Zhou Wan Yi, Feipeng Wang, Jei Wang, Bhushan Warade, Hazel Weatherall, Kenneth Weide, Gregory Weiner, David Weitzberg, Daniel Westerlund, Brittany Wetzel, Dan Wheaton, Ian W.S. White, Ronnie E. Williams Jr., Mark Cameron Williams, Ned Wilson, Sally Wilson, Edmund Wong, Stanley Wong, Christian Wood, Mitchell Woodin, Gilles Wouters, Tiffany Wu, Matthew Wynne, Jiacheng Xu, Junying Xu, Ji Yang, Perry Yap, She Fong Yap, Kiu Fung Kaze Yau, Travis Yee, Pearlyn Yeo, Long Yinghan, Takashi 'Tak' Yoshida, Andrew M. Young, Anton Yri, Jackson Yu, Chan Phui Yung, Deborah Zadzora, Damian Zaprucki, Alvaro Zendejas, Hansu Zhan, Becky Zhang, Lei Zhang, Shuang Zhang, Jason Zhao, Edward Zhou, Cheng Zhu, Cleve Yilun Zhu, Xixi Zhuang, Li Zi Yang, Ruben Gerardo Alfaro Moreno, Georgij Barklaja, Sarah Brims, Ashwini Dey, Jason Evanko, Tim Harrington, Se-kwon Kim, Matthew Lausch, Nelson Lim, Chiaki Matsubayashi, Katie Morris, Stefano Oggeri, Bandhavit Puangpikul, Bhanu Pratap Rathore, Suranjana Sengupta, Martin Tlusty, Joseph Towe, Rick Yang, Jialing Danni Zhang, Haiyang Zhao, Zichuan Zhao
Stunts	Kevin Abercrombie, William G. Ambrose, Ashlen Aquila, Chris Atkinson, Alexis Barron, Randy Beckman, Sebastiano Cartier, Zhang Chaoheng, Jiaojiao Chen, Rob Cooper, Tongiao Cui, Zhao Da, Craig H. Davidson, Huang Dexia, Rockey Dickey Jr., Jared S. Eddo, Timothy Eulich, Dai Fengdu, Scott Fisher, Scott R. Fisher, Mengjing Geng, Ren Haiwu, Wu Hao, Zhenjie Hao, Greg Harris, Randy Haynie, Lei Hekun, Robert Houillion, Wang Huan, André Jette, Li Kaiqiang, Zou Kia, Alistair King, Hiro Koda, Efka Kvaraciejus, Christopher Leps, Qijie Li, Eric Linden, Hailong Liu, Ying Liu, Brad Martin, Michael McGuire, Reg Milne, Lv Ming, Ning Mu, Yang Qianlong, Yalun Qiao, Wu Ran, Buster Reeves, Simon Rhee, Casey E. Roche, Li Shaoyan, Diz Sharpe, Sun Shilong, Dong Shuai, Zhang Shuai, Zong Shuaibang, Wu Shungpeng, Jiajia Sun, Gáspár Szabó, Frank Torres, Bin Wang, Keke Wang, Lu Zhen Wang, Tingting Wang, Vincent Wang, Bo Wei, Xingyu Wu, Rufei Xiao, Li Xiaoho, Fan Xiaoping, Fan Xiaoshuang, Xiuchen Xie, Sun Xin, Xiugang Xin, Hong Xinli, Guangxin Xu, Tingting Xu, Lu Yadong, Sheng Yahuan, Hua Yan, Ren Yifen, Zhang Yonghua, Chao Zhang, Mang Zhang, Peigang Zhao, Wei Zhenduo, Yuanzhang Zhuang, Kevin Abercrombie, Ashlen Aquila, Brian Avery, Alexis Barron, Kristina Baskett, Randy Beckman, Hannah Betts, Nicolas Bosc, Jason Chu, Rob Cooper, Brandon Cornell, Arturo Dickey, Richard Epper, Timothy Eulich, Sebastian Foxx, Lauren Mary Kim, Ingrid Kleinig, Hiro Koda, Efka Kvaraciejus, Nito Larioza, Michael McGuire, Reg Milne, Anthony Molinari, José Antonio Oña Sánchez, Natalie Padilla, Daniel Pera, Anna Ranoso, Nuo Sun, Gáspár Szabó, Michael J Tamburro, Frank Torres, Thom Khoury Williams
Camera and Electrical Department	James W. Apted, Danni He Ault, Darren Bailey, Fernando Barrios, Jasin Boland, Derrick M. Brown, Ryan Busscher, Jamie Couper, William DiCenso, Ming Gao, Jonathan Gomez, Oscar Gomez, Dylan Goss, Ben D. Griffith Jr., Lech Gunovic, Grace Guo, Christopher Haifley, Bryan G. Haigh, Scott Harman, Xiang He, Sean Hill, Brenden Holster, Chen Hua, Colin Hudson, Mark Jefferies, Nate Labruzza, Tom Lane, Jeffrey Lulewicz, Jenny Lvyunqing, Wing Ma, Duane Charles Manwiller, Saba Mazloum, Peter McCaffrey, Guy Micheletti, Dean Morin, Shane Mowday, Andy Mutton, Nigel Nally, Clayton Nepveux, Sean O'Neill, Mike Pickel, Aymerick Pilarski, Kris Prygrocki, Drew Roberts, Tim Rook, Tony Samuels, David Skinner, Philip A.T. Smith, Esther Tan Sonntag, Arden Tse, Anthony Tulloch, Steve Unwin, Ray Valerio, Damian Van Gass, Gareth Viner, Michael Webber, Nathan Wiley, Sam Yun Hui Zhang, Qianying Zhou
Animation Department	Federico Abib, Manuel Almela, Alexandre Belbari, Kathy Kit Ying Choi, Jonas Forsman, Sze Ching Gan, Ronny Gani, Eduard Grigoryan, Juani Guiraldes, Meghana Gupte, Jim Hatibarua, Will Kistler, Aaron Lambert, Ross Norcross, Jim Pierce, Jance Rubinchik, Alfonso Sicilia, Paulo Silvan, Elwaleed Suliman, Roy Tan
Casting Department	Deanna Brigidi, Holly Dorff, Andrew Hadzopoulos, Kim Winther
Costume and Wardrobe Department	Chloe Aubry, Jonay Bacallado, Russell Barnett, Stacy Caballero, Daniela Castillero Ramos, Gloria Chan, Joseph Feltus, Denise Gingrich, Giampaolo Grassi, Grace Gu, Koreen Heaver, Liz Krause, Alan Lashbrook, Emma Liu, Zachary J. Luna, Janice MacIsaac, Philip Maldonado, Martin Mandeville, Emanuel Mecholuam, Becca Miller, Michele Panattoni, Jody Schoffner, Shelly Shaw, Barnaby Smith, Jack Tung, Kate Venables, Patricia Villalobos, Brian Wade, Lifan Wang, Levi Woods, Aleanza Zanon, Sarah Zinn, Joshua Cairós, Hilary Niederer
Editorial Department	Noel Albornoz, Philip Beckner, Jenny Caceres, Dhirendra Chhatpar, Curtis Corona, Vikram Dharankar, Cesare Gagliardoni, Tony Garcia Jr., Travis Geiger, Bernie E. Gomez, Jesse Korosi, Ryan Lalonde, Carol Li, Sorta Lim, Angela Liu, Priyal Mahadik, Vaibhav Marathe, Lara Mazzawi, Richard B. Molina, Simon Morgan, Dan Muscarella, Alex Oreman, Jose Parra, Christopher M. Ray, Bill Schultz, Joshua Steele, Matt Wells, Helen Ma
Location Management	Dick Beckett, William Doyle, Tobin Hughes, Darcy Jaw, Candy Rong Peng
Music Department	Peter Afterman, Laurence Anslow, Max Baillie, Jon Banks, Omer Benyamin, Mark Berrow, Richard Berry, Daniel Bhattacharya, Fiona Bonds, John Bradbury, Ian Burdge, Brandon Campbell, Paul Cassidy, John W. Chapman, Reiad Chibah, Paul Clarvis, Stephen Coleman, Richard Cookson, Nick Cooper, Andrew Crowley, Fiona Cruickshank, Caroline Dale, David Daniels, Caroline Dearnley, Sue Dench, Alison Dods, Philip Eastop, Richard Edwards, Dai Emanuel, Jason Evans, Jonathan Evans-Jones, Alex Ferguson, Chris Fogel, Soophia Foroughi, Roger Garland, Richard George, Kathy Gowers, Isobel Griffiths, Opie Gruves, Gillianne Haddow, Jackie Hartley, Martin Humby, Ian Humphries, Philippa Ibbotson, Stefan Karrer, Paul Kegg, Paul Kimber, Andrew Kinney, Nick Korth, Rick Koster, Joanna Forbes L'Estrange, Peter Lale, Oli Langford, Gabrielle Lester, Alex Levy, Tony Lewis, Roger Linley, Alison Litton, Martin Loveday, Steve Mair, William Marriott, Vicky Matthews, Metro Voices, Perry Montague-Mason, Steve Morris, Everton Nelson, Mark Nightingale, Martin Owen, Andy Parker, Oriana Pedone, Tom Pigott Smith, Richard Pryce, David Pyatt, Maciej Rakowski, Frank Ricotti, Frank Schaefer, Mary Scully, Glenn Sharp, Emlyn Singleton, Owen Slade, Robert Smissen, Dave Stewart, Jill Streater, Nicky Sweeney, Edward Tarrant, Emil Tchakarov, Cathy Thompson, Mike Thompson, John Thurgood, Chris Tombling, David Vines, Allen Walley, Richard Watkins, Eric Wegener, Dan Weniger, Debbie Widdup, Steve Williams, Mark Jan Wlodarkiewicz, Nick Wollage, Andrew Wood, Chris Worsey, Zhu Xiaomeng, Margaret Yen, Cheng Yu, Warren Zielinski, Rachel Bolt, Bruce White, Liu Ye
Script and Continuity Department	Sophie Fabbri, Sophie Fabbri-Jackson, Anna Rane, Beverly Winston
Additional Crew	Robert Amidon, Joshua Aufrance, Hazel Baird, Thouraya Battye, Karen Bergen, Bai Bing, Rino Bonavita, Billy Bonifield, Rocky Bonifield, Sarah Brandt, Francie Brown, Carol Sue Byron, Elise Callas, Alexandre Chen, Lee Chen, Ewan Chung, Sam Cieply, Ali Claire, Kyle Cooper, Tommie Curran, Dana Curt, Nick D'Benedetto, Peng Dai, Celeste Den, Judy Dickerson, Jun Hua Du, Joe Dunckley, Marie Elder, Dan Rui 'Zoe' Fang, Kiyomi Fujimoto, Qianzi Gao, Travis Geiger, Drew Grant, Jonathan Harding, Cynthia He, Eric Hedayat, Nick Hore, Julia Hiroko Howe, Karen Huie, Marc Hyman, Roman Jankovic, Shogher Kahvedjian, Roger King, Kristin Kruger, Bayan Laird, Fiona Landreth, Jim Lau, Lucia Ledonne, Leann Lei, Elly Li, Haoxue Li, Jun Liu, Qingqian Ma, Raymond Ma, Andria Mack, Ernie Malik, Rachel McIntire, Kytková Tomsíková Miroslava, Tim Monich, David Moore, Alan Murphy, Ao Ni, Colin J. O'Hara, Jonathan Osland, Charlotte Piddington, Julianna Politsky, Alan D. Purwin, David M. Rodriguez, Tony Samuels, Roy Samuelson, Serena Shen, Joseph Slomka, Michael J Tamburro, Jordan C. Terrell, Eric W. Thompson, Lukas Tomsik, David Torok, Gary Trentham, Brady Tujikawa, Nadia Tzuo, Jason Walsh, Wendy Wang Wei, Adam Wang, Ellen Wang, Willow Wang, Madison Weireter, Rachel Weng, Brian Wensel, Nathan Wiley, Eric Witherly, Ryan Witherly, Ronan Wong, Katie Woolridge, Dixie Wu, Zhi-Yong Xie, Ba Ya'er, Hsiao Yang, Sol Ye, Wang Yupo, Ilya Yurchishin, Adam Zhang, Teng Zhang, Jingyu Zhao, Lexie Zhao, Jianlei Zhou, Dongyu Zhu, Vladimir 'Furdo' Furdik, Kris Gillan, Kytková Tomsíková Miroslava, Benjamin Mullin
Thanks	Yang Zhaokai
Genres	Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Companies	Legendary East, Atlas Entertainment, China Film Co., Ltd.
Countries	USA, China, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada
Languages	English, Mandarin, Spanish
ContentRating	PG-13
ImDbRating	5.9
ImDb Rating Votes	135718
Metacritic Rating	42
Short Description	The Great Wall (Chinese: 长城) 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 around a European mercenary warrior (Matt Damon) 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. 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 by Universal Pictures, and in Japan on April 14 by United International Pictures. The film received mostly negative reviews from critics, but received some praise for its action sequences. Although it grossed $335 million worldwide, the film was still considered a box office bomb due to its high production and marketing costs, with losses as high as $75 million.
Box Office Budget	$150,000,000 (estimated)
Box Office Opening Weekend USA	$18,469,620
Box Office Gross USA	$45,540,830
Box Office Cumulative Worldwide Gross	$334,933,831
Keywords	Great wall of china,female general,monster,mercenary,queen

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