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‘Empires of the Deep’: The controversial movie with a 130 million dollar budget that is never going to come to light

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The cinema industry has seen the emergence of numerous movies that become a global phenomenon because of the insane budget and gross box scores that proclaimed them as one of the best movies of all time. However, others such as ‘Empire of the Deep’ didn’t have the same fate and were destined to never come to light despite its millionaire budget.

The Chinese film industry attempted to create an ambitious project to compete against the successful movies at that time, such as ‘Avatar.’ ‘Empires of the Deep’s plot tells the story of fantasy humanoid creatures who faced numerous challenges in order to survive, this interesting plot was supported by a 130 million dollar budget, one of the biggest investments in its time.

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However, the budget wasn’t enough to solve the several post-production issues of the movie. Firstly, no company wanted to promote the movie because of the internal issues that subsequently led to making a movie that wasn’t at the level of other Hollywood films. In addition, the directors and producers had feuds because of cultural issues which profoundly affected the production of this movie.

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‘Empire of the Deep’ was set to be released in 2011 and was postponed until late 2012. The movie released just one official trailer that received negative reviews from movie critics and the general public. It was automatically compared to ‘Avatar’ as a cheaper version of the movie despite the insane budget they had to make this movie. Watch the trailer below:

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