More Facts About Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” in “The Art of Power”
- Screenwriter Adrian Walker was inspired to add pieces of the book to the script after he saw a copy in a bookstore one day while he was writing the screenplay. He says, “I thought it might be an interesting angle on the script, and started to slowly add the pieces of what are now in the film.”
- Many business schools use the book as teaching guides these days, and he realized how the book could be used by the main character, Wesley, to achieve his goals.
- It was difficult to pick which pieces of the book to use where in the film. Adrian tried to make sure that the themes from certain chapters in the book mirrored what was going on or about to happen in the story.
- On our official movie poster, “The Art of War” is written down the right-hand side in Mandarin.
