Jean-Jacques Annaud, Wolf Totem

Jean-Jacques Annaud spent seven years of his life working to adapt the Chinese bestselling novel Wolf Totem to the 3-D screen, and what a wild ride it was. Filming on location in a remote area of Inner Mongolia, the film's production included raising litters of wolf cubs from birth alongside a Canadian trainer and preparing the animals to work with cameras, working with a 400 person crew, and at times even dealing with hundreds of stampeding horses. Producers of this period epic declared Annaud, the director behind the ethnographic worldwide successes of Quest for Fire and The Bear, the only man for such a job.

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