The Ninth Gate
Every book has a life of its own.
Production
Budget
$38 000 000
Revenue
$58 401 898
Director
Actors
Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner, Barbara Jefford, Jack Taylor, José López Rodero, Tony Amoni, James Russo, Willy Holt
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Roman Polanski, Michel Cheyko, Wolfgang Glattes, Mishka Cheyko
Operator
Composer
Artist
Audition
Howard Feuer
Editing
Short description
A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, capable of summoning the Devil.
What's left behind the scenes
- Dean Corso smokes Lucky Strike cigarettes.
- The booksellers Pablo and Pedro Senitz, whom Corso meets in Toledo, were played by one actor – José López Rodero. The little girl who encounters Corso at the airport in Paris was played by Morgan, Roman Polanski’s daughter.
- In the novel, Liana Tellfer is a striking blonde with a curvaceous figure. Actress Lena Olin is a slender brunette, clearly not matching the book's original description.
- The cigarettes smoked by Liana Tellfer are called “Black Devils”.
- The pen that Corso uses is a limited collector's edition Montblanc Agatha Christie ballpoint pen.
- The pen Corso writes with is a limited-edition collector's item – a Montblanc Agatha Christie ballpoint pen.
- At the beginning of the film, we see a series of different opening gates—exactly nine of them.
- In Pérez-Reverte's book, there are two plotlines that turn out to be unrelated. Polanski organically merged both lines into one in the screenplay. Before the film begins, the camera first flies through the nine gates during the opening credits.
- At the beginning of the film, we see a series of different opening gates – there are exactly nine of them.
- The film is based on Arturo Pérez-Reverte's novel 'The Dumas Club, or the Shadow of Richelieu' (El club Dumas o la sombra de Richelieu, 1993).
- In Pérez-Reverte's book, there are two plotlines that turn out to be unrelated. In the screenplay, Polanski organically merged both lines into one. During the opening credits, the camera flies through nine gates before the film begins.
- The main character's name was changed. In Reverte's novel, he is called Lucas Corso. In Polanski's film, he became Dean Corso.
- On the set of the film, Johnny met Vanessa Paradis, his future common-law wife and the mother of his two children.
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