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City of Ember (2008) More at IMDbPro »

• 'Ember' is a Hungarian word which means 'man' and 'human' in English.
  
  
• The word Ember also refers to the embers of a fire, a metaphor for the situation that the characters find themselves in.
  
  
• Last cinema film of Liz Smith .
  
  
• The live action debut for director Gil Kenan. His actual film debut, Monster House (2006) was motion capture animated.
  
  
• The first time Bill Murray and Martin Landau have been in a film together since Ed Wood (1994). And Caroline Thompson, the screenwriter on City of Ember (2008) regularly works with Tim Burton.
  
  
• When Doon gets his first glimpse of the generator, the camera views it from our perspective instead. Director Gil Kenan did it this way because Doon acts as our eyes and it conveys to us the importance of the generator to his city and our story.
  
  
• There were so many sets built for the film that some of them wound up never being used. They do sometimes feature prominently in the background, like the hairdressers, but they play no part in the story.
  
  
• The book sequel has been optioned, but considering the poor box-office reception of City of Ember (2008), it remains to be seen if it will be made into a film too.
  
  
• A former paint hall in the shipyard of Harland and Wolff in Belfast's Titanic Quarter was converted into the city of Ember.
  
  

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