![]() ![]() Amazon's pick up and distribution marks the UK bow for the feature, which is actually remarkably watchable considering everything going on behind the scenes which should arguably have prevented it from being so. As a result, the feature, which was shot in 2016, ended up shelved for years, and then unceremoniously dumped - Snowpiercer-style - on VOD and streaming services. ![]() Originally intending to not only star in it, but also direct the piece, he handed over directorial reins to his Apocalypto screenwriter, Farhad Safinia, but the production was fraught with woes from the start, running over schedule and over budget, and all culminating in a legal clash that ultimately saw Gibson and Safinia take the matter to court to try and stop the production studios from finishing and releasing the incomplete film without them. Gibson purchased the rights to the Simon Winchester book "The Surgeon of Crowthorne" (dubbed The Professor and the Madman in its US release) as far back as 1999, hoping to adapt the biographical tale of the birth of the OED, and the unusual men that fought so hard to bring it to life. Amazon picks up the messy, shot-in-2016 film whose tale of the impossible task of bringing the Oxford English Dictionary into existence is ironically mirrored by the film's own 20 years of production woes. ![]()
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