During the battle, Garin and Tovar are freed by Ballard, another European who came east twenty-five years earlier detained, he now serves as an English and Latin teacher. Both sides sustain heavy losses before the monsters' queen aborts the attack. Shortly after, a horde of Tao Tie assails the Wall. The Order's commanders are surprised by the monsters' first assault, which has come one week early. Led by General Shao and Strategist Wang, the Nameless Order exists to combat Tao Tie, alien monsters that arrived from a meteorite and attack once every sixty years. Upon reaching the Wall, they are taken prisoner by the Nameless Order. They sever the monster's arm and bring it with them. Only Irishman William Garin and Spaniard Pero Tovar survive. A few miles north of the Great Wall, they are attacked by a monster. 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.ĭuring the reign of Renzong Emperor, a group of European mercenaries travels to China, searching for the secret to gunpowder.
The film received mostly mixed reviews from critics, but received some praise for its action sequences.
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 Toho-Towa. Principal photography for the film began on March 30, 2015, in Qingdao, China, and it premiered in Beijing on December 6, 2016. The Great Wall is Zhang's first English-language film. An American and Chinese co-production starring Matt Damon, Jing Tian, Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe, and Andy Lau, the plot centers around 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 ( 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.
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