The film was made and released about one hundred years after its source stage play by Henrik Ibsen had its writing completed in 1884.
The original Norweigian character names from the film's source stage-play "The Wild Duck" (1984) were anglicized for this English language film adaptation and are different English names to their counterparts in the source Norweigian play by Henrik Ibsen.
The setting of the film's source Henrik Ibsen stage play was re-located from Norway to Australia for this Australian cinema movie screen adaptation.
The original Norwegian name of this film's source stage "The Wild Duck" by Henrik Ibsen is "Vildanden" (aka "Villanden") which translates literally into the English language as "Wild Duck" but without the definite article "The".