The Constant Gardener: The Shooting Script

The Constant Gardener: The Shooting Script

<p>Exclusive to this Newmarket Shooting Script® book are the film's award-winning screenplay by Jeffrey Caine, a foreword by John le Carré written specially for this official edition, along with a perceptive introduction by film critic Kenneth Turan, a color photo section, and in-depth notes on the production of the film, featuring behind-the-scenes comments from the actors, the writers, Oscar®-nominated director Fernando Meirelles (<em>City of God</em>), and his international filmmaking team, including observations about shooting in Kenya and the worldwide effects of the pharmaceutical industry.</p><p>Two-time Academy Award® nominee Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz head the cast of the highly acclaimed thriller filmed on location in Berlin, London, and Nairobi and numerous other parts of Kenya. In a remote area of northern Kenya, the region's most dedicated activist, the brilliant and passionate Tessa Quayle (Rachel Weisz), has been found brutally murdered.</p><p>Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his wife's infidelities, mild-mannered British diplomat and Tessa's widower, Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes), surprises himself by plunging headlong into a dangerous odyssey. His eyes are soon opened to a vast conspiracy at once deadly and commonplace, one that has claimed innocent lives—and is about to put his own at risk.</p>