The City of Your Final Destination

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The City of Your Final Destination
Directed by	James Ivory
Produced by	Paul Bradley Richard Hawley
Written by	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (based on the novel by Peter Cameron)
Starring	Anthony Hopkins Laura Linney, Charlotte Gainsbourg Omar Metwally Hiroyuki Sanada Alexandra Maria Lara Kate Burton
Music by	Richard Robbins
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The City of Your Final Destination is a Merchant Ivory Productions film. It is directed by James Ivory and with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. It is the first Merchant Ivory film made since the death of Ismail Merchant.

The film is based on Peter Cameron's 2002 novel of the same name. The film follows a grad student, Omar Razaghi (Omar Metwally), who wishes to write a biography on an obscure writer, Jules Gund, who passed away years before. He must travel to Uruguay to persuade the Gund family to authorize the biography.

The movie was filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Boulder, Colorado.

It had an early preview in New York City on November 27, 2007 (Ceremony of Trophée des Arts fro James Ivory form French Institute New York), but the full theatrical release is expected in April of 2008.

[edit] Controversy

In early 2007, Anthony Hopkins claimed he had yet to be paid for his work on the film, and that Merchant Ivory had short-changed the cast and crew ^[1] Merchant Ivory counter-argued that Hopkins payment terms had in fact recently been renegotiated higher. Later in the year the actor filed court papers to take the company to an arbitrator. In October of 2007, Hopkins filed a lawsuit against Merchant Ivory for payment of his salary of $750,000.^[2]