The Book of Eli is a 2010 American post-apocalyptic action film directed by the Hughes brothers, written by Gary Whitta, and starring Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson and Jennifer Beals. The story revolves around Eli, a nomad in a post-apocalyptic world, who is told by a voice to deliver his copy of a mysterious book to a safe location on the West Coast of the United States. The history of the post-war world is explained along the way as is the importance of Eli's task. Filming began in February 2009 and took place in New Mexico. The film was released for theaters in... January 2010. Alcon Entertainment financed and co-produced the film with Silver Pictures, while it was distributed by Warner Bros. in the US, and international sales handled by Summit Entertainment. Thirty years after a nuclear apocalypse, Eli travels on foot toward the west coast of the United States. Along the way, he demonstrates uncanny survival and fighting skills, hunting wildlife and swiftly defeating a group of highway bandits who try to ambush him. Searching for a source of water, he arrives in a ramshackle town built and overseen by Carnegie .
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| Release date: | January 11, 2010 |
| Directed by: | Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 118 Minutes |
| Producer: | Joel Silver, Denzel Washington, Andrew Kosove, David Valdes, Broderick Johnson |
| Editor: | Cindy Mollo |
| Music by: | Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross, Claudia Sarne |
| Cinematography: | Don Burgess |
| Screenplay by: | Gary Whitta |
| Estimated budget: | $80,000,000 |
| Genre: | Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, Thriller, Western |