The film was produced by Plan B, a company owned by Brad Pitt (Ocean's Eleven, Troy, Babel). Brad Pitt did not play as a player but as a producer of this film with Julia Roberts. Brad Pitt was the plan will also oversee shootingnya in Bali.
"Eat, Pray, Love", taken from one of the main selling novels in America had become the New York Times Best Seller List for 110 weeks, selling over 6,000,000 copies and is discussed in the Oprah Winfrey Show, twice.
This book tells about the way Elizabeth Gilbert, the author finds himself in. He really is a woman who could be considered successful, was married and had a brilliant career as a writer. But he felt his life was empty and without happiness. She reached a deep depression and feels life is not useful.
After the divorce Gilbert finally decided to leave, he wanted to travel around the world, leaving everything he knew, with great hope, find something missing in him.
In Italy she wanted to seek pleasure, enjoyment of life, especially his hobby for a good meal (eat). Then he went away to India, to find spirituality in life (pray). Until finally she came to a very beautiful island and has an aura of mysticism and spirituality are thick and enlightening. He arrived at a place called Bali. There, he wanted to find a balance of both, food, spirituality, and its peak, is love. He wants to get his life back.
A place in Ubud, Bali
Filming was done in New York, Italy, India, and Bali, especially in Ubud. Ubud village is the famous art village in Bali. In addition will also shootingnya around many places in Bali such as Gianyar, Karangasem, Jimbaran, Badung, Uluwatu, and Nusa Dua. There was even a shooting in traditional markets.
Of all the locations in the world, shooting the longest were in Bali, because the story in the book, he will eventually find what he was looking at the island's beautiful and peaceful Bali.