August 25 it became known that the director Ilya Khotinenko put a new big-picture "Varangian". The artistic director of the project will address the father of filmmaker Vladimir Khotinenko. a plot of the painting lay a story of heroism of the team cruiser Varyag ", taken during the Russian-Japanese war an unequal battle against the superior forces of the enemy.
Ilya Khotinenko said that his main task in the movie "Varyag" is to create a screen adaptation of the well-known to all Childhood events through contemporary cinematic language. Historical consultants, the new film made by the head of Rosokhrankultura candidate of historical sciences, a military historian Alexander Kibovsky and the candidate of historical sciences, professor HSE Andrew Khazin. According to project managers, to work on tape will be used the most modern computer technology. Creation of special effects will take Russian and American specialists with expertise in the production of big-and technically complex patterns. The film's budget is approximately $ 18 million production of tapes is scheduled for completion in autumn 2010, and on the screens picture should emerge in 2011.