Aftermath
Zinnemann later sued MGM for damages relating to the cancellation, with the case being settled in his favour in 1973.
The Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci proposed adapting the film in the 1980s to the Chinese government; they preferred his alternative proposal, The Last Emperor, a 1987 biopic based around the life of the Chinese Emperor Puyi.
In 2001, U.S. filmmaker Michael Cimino announced he would create a film version of Man's Fate, with Daniel Day-Lewis, John Malkovich, Uma Thurman and Johnny Depp in the lead roles. To date, the proposed film has not been made.
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