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However, later cost overrun increased the cost to RM 48.57 million (US$ 15 million). In September 2016, government of Sarawak endorsed the plan and channeled RM 39.01 million through Sarawak Tourism, Arts, Culture, and Sports Ministry to fund the project. The Trust also gave the Allyn access to various images from the Brooke family for film production. Later Jason Brooke, grandson of Anthony Brooke, representing Brooke Heritage Trust, contacted Allyn and invited him to make the film in Sarawak instead of Indonesia. After thinking about the film for 3 years, Allyn and his production company tried to make the story into film since 2013, initially naming the film as "The White Rajah".
He also came across a coffee table book in a Singapore bookstore, named "The White Rajah of Sarawak" with illustrations of Sarawak tribes and jungles. More research on Brooke led him into a fixation. Rob Allyn, the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Margate House Films, was interested in filming the life of James Brooke, after being introduced to the figure through a footnote in a George MacDonald Fraser novel, which he read in 2009.
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