The stunt team built eight platforms (12 meters tall) in the cave for three days of wire work. The record was over 70 wires for one scene.
Empress Wu Zetian:
Remember, when one's aim is to achieve greatness... everyone is expendable.
General Asper, the Umayyad Ambassador, speaks modern day Spanish, a language that did not yet exist as such at the end of the 7th century CE.
Mandarin, Spanish
$13,000,000 (estimated)
$52,617 4 September 2011
$459,836
$51,899,269