"Blood Diamond" and "The Last Samurai" director Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz wrote the script, from a story by Thomas Tull and Max Brooks, which looks at the mystery behind the construction of the Great Wall of China. The story follows a group of British warriors traveling through 15th Century China and come upon the hurried construction As night falls, the warriors realize that the haste in building the wall isn’t just to keep out the Mongols. There is something inhuman and more dangerous.
Zwick was due to call action--he left in the fall of 2012 after the film was delayed. The basic concept remains intact. Tony Gilroy wrote the most recent script following work by Carlo Bernard and Doug Miro. Yimou Zhang ("House of Flying Daggers," "Raise the Red Lantern") is set to direct the film now.
Zwick, Tull, Herskovitz, Jon Jashni, Alex Gartner and Charles Roven were going to produce.
Henry Cavill Alexander Skarsgård Zhang Ziyi and Benjamin Walker were poised to star in the film along with other Chinese talent before it was postponed back in June 2012 due to climate and financial issues.
Damon previously was slated to work with Yimou on 2011's "The Flowers of War" in a role that eventually went to Christian Bale .
It's not known if or how this news will impact Yimou's film adaptation of author Robert Ludlum's novel "The Parsifal Mosaic"
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