THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN (2019)

RATING: 7/10✅

Biography/Drama/History

The film is about the famous professor, Sir James Murray, who in 1857 began compiling the Oxford English Dictionary and led the overseeing committee and W. C. Minor, a doctor who submitted over 10,000 entries while he was undergoing treatment at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum.

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Directed by: P. B. Shemran

Produced by: Nicolas Chartier, Gaston Pavlovich

Screenplay by: Todd Komarnicki, P. B. Shemran

Based on: The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester

Starring: Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer, Eddie Marsan, Jennifer Ehle, Jeremy Irvine, David O'Hara Ioan Gruffudd, Stephen Dillane, Steve Coogan

Music by: Bear McCreary

Cinematography: Kasper Tuxen

Edited by: Dino Jonsater

Production Company: Fastnet Films, Icon Entertainment International, Voltage Pictures

Distributed by: Vertical Entertainment

Release Date: May 10, 2019 (United States)

Country: United States, Ireland

Language: English

Budget: $25 million

Mel Gibson worked on adapting the book The Surgeon of Crowthorne for over 20 years before production began to develop in 2016. Gibson, who originally intended to direct, hired his Apocalypto co-screenwriter Farhad Safinia to replace him, while he remained in the role of James Murray. Sean Penn entered early talks to join the film as William Chester Minor in August 2016. In August, Natalie Dormer signed on for a role. In September, Ioan Gruffudd joined the cast.