'Brimstone' trivia and fun facts
Blockbuster
'Brimstone' became writer/director Martin Koolhoven's fifth consecutive hit movie in The Netherlands.
Awarded
The readers of True West Magazine chose the movie as Best Foreign Western Movie.
Old friends
Kit Harington and Carice van Houten have both worked on 'Game of Thrones' (2011).
Risk losing everything
Director Martin Koolhoven and producer Els Vandevorst were so adamant to make this passion project that they put their entire salaries in the budget.
Without order
This is the second movie featuring Guy Pearce to have a predominantly non-chronological narrative structure. The first was 'Memento' (2000).
Matter of colors
Carice van Houten's eyes are normally blue, yet are brown in this movie. Emilia Jones on the other hand, normally has brown eyes, but has blue eyes in Brimstone. Guy Pearce's eyes are normally blue, yet they are only blue in chapter 2 & 3. In 1 & 4, they are almost black.
Music
Tom Holkeborg aka Junkie XL composed the music for 'Brimstone'. Some of the parts were based on Johan Sebastian Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor.
With a lot of care
Acclaimed Dutch director Martin Koolhoven worked almost 7 years on this project. He estimated that writing took him 3.5 years [interspersed with visits to movie festivals to promote his previous movie 'Winter in Wartime' (2008)], two years to get the finance in order, and 1.5 years of actual production.
Numbers
This the most expensive Dutch movie after 'Zwartboek' (2006).
Not in America
Director Martin Koolhoven was offered to make the movie for an American studio, but that would mean he didn't have final cut, so he chose to make it a European co-production, independently financed by eight different countries.