20 Things You Didn't Know About The Prestige

5. The Script Took Five Years To Write

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The Prestige is a very complex movie, and as you might expect, it wasn't an easy nut to crack on a story level. In fact, it took literally years to get it right.

Nolan started writing the script somewhere around 2000/2001, bringing his brother Jonathan onboard when he became wrapped up in the production of another movie, Insomina. From here, the siblings spent five years hashing out the story and bringing its many layers together, finally completing the script on 13 January 2006.

Even then, they couldn't exactly take a break, because the film went into production a mere three days later.

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