 However, before production was officially announced, Winterbottom traveled with co-star Dan Futterman and a skeleton crew to Karachi for ten days of filming at actual locations from the events.The production also shot multiple scenes in Austin, Texas in early 2007, including a key sequence with Marianne Pearl giving an interview in a Karachi hotel.Also filmed in Austin were exteriors of the Pearl family house (set in Los Angeles) and scenes set at "The Wall Street Journal" offices in New York, which were filmed in the offices of the "Austin American-Statesman".