When was salmon fishing in the yemen filmed

Sign In. Play trailer Comedy Drama Romance. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. Promo Photos Top cast Edit. Ewan McGregor Dr. Alfred Jones as Dr. Alfred Jones. Emily Blunt Harriet as Harriet. Catherine Steadman Ashley as Ashley. Tom Mison Capt. Robert Mayers as Capt. Robert Mayers. Jill Baker Betty as Betty. Hamish Gray Malcolm as Malcolm.

Waleed Akhtar Essad as Essad. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Visionary Sheikh Muhammed bin Zaida bani Tihama Amr Waked believes his passion for the peaceful pastime of salmon fishing can enrich the lives of his people, and he dreams of bringing the sport to the not so fish-friendly desert.

Willing to spare no expense, he instructs his representative to turn the dream into reality, an extraordinary feat that will require the involvement of Britain's leading fisheries expert, Dr.

Now, this unlikely team will put it all on the line and embark on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible, possible. But when Rachel Weisz dropped out at the very last minute this past May, the film folded. Hallstrom seems to allude to some turmoil when he explains what happened. But a scheduled release date of spring clearly never materialized, though it appears the film may be his next.

Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Actually, I have a friend, a British film-maker, who was in line to direct Salmon Fishing early on, and what he suggested didn't sound a lot like what I finally saw.

Somewhere in the novel lie the makings of a very mild-mannered, eccentric, neo-Ealing comedy — The Man In The White Suit, with rods and reels, sheikhs and terrorists — many of its delights having to do with the fondness that develops between two emotionally undemonstrative English people.

In the end I realised that, with Local Hero, he'd already made it. Salmon Fishing In The Yemen totally misses the boat.