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Budget 25,000,000 USD
Producer Martin Ransohoff and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio in 1966 acquired the rights to James Clavell's source "Tai-Pan" novel for US $500,000. The movie was then announced by MGM in 1967-68 to star Patrick McGoohan to play Dirk Struan, to be directed by Michael Anderson, with source novelist Clavell writing the screenplay. The picture was originally budgeted to cost US $26 million which was then reduced to US $20 million. The project sat around stagnant for a time in development hell. However, after severe operating losses, the epic was one of a number of expensive projects the new management at the MGM studio dropped as being too costly. The project and the development of the movie at MGM was in the end canceled by executive James T. Aubrey.
Executive Producer Dino De Laurentiis after the picture was completed declared that it was an error making the movie in China.
Reportedly, filming in China was gravely problematic for the production due to Labour Boards and the bureaucracy of the Chinese Government.
In the late-1970s, Georges-Alain Vuille acquired the rights to the James Clavell source novel with director Richard Fleischer attached to direct and George MacDonald Fraser hired to write the screenplay. After the film script was approved, Fraser was then asked to also pen a sequel. Star Steve McQueen agreed to play the lead for a then-record US $10 million and was paid an advance of US $1 million. When the producers were unable to pay the second installment on time, McQueen dropped out of the film, keeping the US $1 million he had already been paid.
According to the Turner Classics Movies website "this film represents the first extensive production agreement between an American filmmaker and China".
"Dirk Struan: No emperor has seen the guns of a British man-of-war."
