Director Fernando Merrills once confessed three reasons for directing the film: one is related to the pharmaceutical industry; the other is filming in Kenya; and the third is that, in the final analysis, the film is telling a beautiful love story.
When the British independent filmmaker Simon Channing Williams saw John Le Carré’s novel "The Immortal Gardener" in advance at the end of 2000, he immediately wrote to the author’s lawyer, Michael Rudell, and Si pleaded Make a novel into a movie.
With the gradual formation of the filming plan, novelist and screenwriter Jeffrey Kane decided to meet the challenge of adapting the script, saying "I was moved by the film potential of the novel "The Immortal Gardener", a love story combined with contemporary political themes. Together, they also have a suspenseful structure.
