Tim Bevan

Tim Bevan CBE is a producer with Working Title. He worked as the producer on Anna Karenina.
In the development of Anna Karenina, he and the development team watched all the previous adaptations of Anna Karenina, and they felt that there was room to make a newer, more modern version. They read the novel, which Bevan described as a "1000-page tome" and then decided that the focus of their adaptation should focus around the theme of love with the stories of Anna and Vronksy, and Kitty and Levin.
He claims that the decision not to shoot in Russia is owed to the corrupt politics and a "third world" approach to media in the country. He did admit however, that originally he did not think very much of Joe Wright's idea to shoot the film in the theatre setting.
The budget for the film was around £36 million, and it was shot in 12 weeks.
He told us that the decision making process for a film focuses a lot on the other ones that are going to be released around it. In order to make a smaller, more niche film like Anna Karenina, Bevan says, a big film needs to be in production to ensure fiscal security.
Bevan told us that it was known that Les Miserables was always going to have a big audience due to the fact that the stage show itself was viewed by 60 million people over it's time.