This movie was shot in 2014 but the release was postponed for three years. The first test screening happened in November 2014 and didn't get positive reactions. This movie was originally scheduled to be released in June 2016, but the release date was pushed to July 2016, then to February 2017, August 25, 2017, and it was finally released in theaters in September 1, 2017.
When DreamWorks set up the original "Tulip Fever" in 2004, they had built a massive set of the Amsterdam canals, and planted twelve thousand tulips. Jude Law, Natalie Portman, and Jim Broadbent were all set to star until the plug was pulled just 12 days before shooting.
The last theatrical release by The Weinstein Company, and released just a month before multiple articles about Harvey Weinstein's decades-long instances of sexual assault and harassment were first published.
This movie was seven weeks away from shooting in 2004. When the British government shuttered a tax break program, the forty-five million dollar budget grew by about seventeen million dollars, and this movie was shut down. It was resurrected by Ruby Films and The Weinstein Company in 2013 and the budget has been slimmed down to twenty-five million dollars.
This movie is set in the Netherlands with Dutch characters, but was entirely shot in the U.K. (in Norfolk, Suffolk, and at Pinewood Studios) and there are no Dutch actors or actresses in it.