After the box-office failure of Green Zone (2010), Working Title's parent company, Universal Pictures, wrote off this movie in an attempt to partially off-set that movie's loss of over one hundred million dollars. The insurers reportedly stipulated that the original camera negative be destroyed.
This began filming in September 2007, but has never been properly released.
In July 2009, Writer Lee Hall and Director Beeban Kidron both left the project during the editing process, because of "creative differences".
Hugh Bonneville filmed scenes which were later cut.