 While the production 's lawyers worked to clarify its legal standing in the Summer of 2005 , it emerged that Humbert Balsan 's deeply indebted production company Ognon Pictures had pledged all rights to the production to Coficiné in exchange for loans . With production in legal stasis and faced with a lengthy court battle to recover the rights , the producers agreed to a settlement with Ognon 's bankruptcy officer . In the meantime , the French partners Mezzanine Film declared their uncomfortableness with the scale of the production , and after mutual agreement with the producers , left the project on September 5 , 2005 . After meeting with the producers and their new French partner , Paul Saadoun of 13 Production , Coficiné consented to completing the film . On February 6 , 2006 , Tarr and producer Gábor Téni issued a press release which documented at length the developments with the troubled production to that date , and expressed their hope and intent to persevere in completing the film . Tarr duly restarted shooting in March 2006 , after a year of inactivity . The filmmakers dedicated The Man from London to their late colleague Humbert Balsan . 
