The Ghost and the Darkness

The Ghost and the Darkness
The Ghost and the Darkness
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Stephen Hopkins
Written by	William Goldman
Based on	The Man-eaters of Tsavo; by John Henry Patterson
Produced by	Gale Anne Hurd; Paul B. Radin; A. Kitman Ho;
Starring	Michael Douglas; Val Kilmer;
Cinematography	Vilmos Zsigmond
Edited by	Robert Brown; Roger Bondelli; Steve Mirkovich;
Music by	Jerry Goldsmith
Production; companies	Constellation Films; Douglas/Reuther Productions;
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	October 11, 1996;
Running time	110 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$55 million
Box office	$75 million

The Ghost and the Darkness is a 1996 American historical adventure film directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas. The screenplay, written by William Goldman, is a fictionalized account of the Tsavo man-eaters, a pair of male lions that terrorized workers in and around Tsavo, Kenya during the building of the Uganda-Mombasa Railway in East Africa in 1898.

The film received mixed reviews and grossed $75 million against a production budget of $55 million.^[1] It won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing for supervising sound editor Bruce Stambler.^[3]^[4]

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