Everest (2015)

Everest is a 2015 American 3D disaster thriller film directed by Baltasar Kormákur and written by William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy. The film stars Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly, Sam Worthington, Keira Knightley, Emily Watson, and Jake Gyllenhaal.

The film is set for a September 18, 2015 release date. It is based on the real events of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. It will focus on the summit and survival attempts of two expedition groups, the one led by Scott Fischer (played by Gyllenhaal), and the one led by Rob Hall (played by Clarke).

Plot

A story based on the real events of 1996 Mount Everest disaster which led to the deaths of several climbers.

Cast

• Jason Clarke as Rob Hall, a New Zealander expedition group leader.
• Jake Gyllenhaal as Scott Fischer, an expedition group leader.
• Josh Brolin as Beck Weathers, a doctor.
• John Hawkes as Doug Hansen, a mailman.
• Sam Worthington as Guy Cotter
• Robin Wright as Peach, Weathers' wife.
• Michael Kelly as Jon Krakauer
• Keira Knightley as Jan Arnold, Rob Hall's pregnant wife.
• Emily Watson as Helen Wilton
• Thomas Wright as Michael Groom, an Australian mountain climber.
• Martin Henderson as Andy Harris
• Elizabeth Debicki as Dr. Caroline Mackenzie
• Naoko Mori as Yasuko Namba
• Clive Standen as Ed Viesturs
• Vanessa Kirby as Sandy Hill
• Tom Goodman-Hill as Neal Beidleman
• Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson as Anatoli Boukreev
• Charlotte Bøving as Lene Gammelgaard, a successful Danish climber in Fischer's group.
• Micah Hauptman as David Breashears, a documentary filmmaker and mountaineer.
• Chris Reilly as Klev Schoening
• Chike Chan as Makalu Gau
• Vijay Lama as Lt Col Madan KC, Nepal Army rescue helicopter pilot.
• Mark Derwin as Lou Kasischke

Production

Development

Director Baltasar Kormákur is set to direct the film scripted by Simon Beaufoy and Mark Medoff, with early script adaptions carried out by Justin Isbell and William Nicholson and produced by Working Title Films. Universal Pictures will distribute the film in US. The film about the 1996 disastrous expedition to scale Mount Everest will be produced by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, and started shooting in November 2013. In September 2013, Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films was first about to co-finance the film but later in October they exited as co-financier.

After the film production start date November 6, 2013, had passed, Cross Creek Pictures and Walden Media have joined the production on November 12, 2013, to finance the film with $65 million. The film started production on January 13, 2014, in the Ötztal Alps in Italy, after which production was moved to Nepal and Iceland. On December 11, 2013, The Hollywood Reporter posted that South Tyrol's regional film board has added $1 million to the film's funding.

On January 30, 2014, Universal set February 27, 2015 as release date for the film, but later on March 21 it was moved to September 18, 2015.

Pre-production

On February 19, 2013, Christian Bale was in talks to join the cast of the disaster film to play Rob Hall, the leader of a New Zealander group who ran Adventure Consultants. On July 17, Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Jason Clarke and John Hawkes joined the lead cast of the film. Bale dropped out of the film around this time. Gyllenhaal will play Scott Fischer, an expedition leader; Brolin will play Beck Weathers, a doctor; Clarke will now play the role of Rob Hall, also an expedition leader; and Hawkes will play Doug Hansen, one of Rob Hall's clients who encounters difficulties on the descent from the summit of Everest.

On February 4, 2014, Clive Standen also joined the cast of the film while the shooting is underway. On February 7, 2014 more cast and characters added to the film, which includes Martin Henderson, Emily Watson, Thomas M. Wright and Michael Kelly, Watson will play a motherly base camp figure who works closely with Rob Hall and Kelly will play Into Thin Air author Jon Krakauer. On February 17th, actor Micah Hauptman was added to the cast of the film. He'll play the role of filmmaker and mountaineer David Breashears, who directed the 1998 IMAX documentary film Everest. On March 24, 2014, two more joined the cast of the film including Sam Worthington and Robin Wright. Worthington will play Guy Cotter and Wright will play Beck Weathers' wife Peach. On May 1, DailyMail.co.uk revealed that Keira Knightley joined the film as Jan Arnold, to play Rob Hall's pregnant wife.

Filming

In November 2013, the film was set for a January 13, 2014 production start date in Italy. Co-financier Brian Oliver told Variety that they would shoot in Ötztal Alps in Italy for six weeks, a month in Iceland and then move to Nepal for another month shoot. In early January 2014, actors Gyllenhaal and Brolin were practicing for climbing mountains in the Santa Monica Mountains to train for their roles.

The 44-member crew arrived on January 12, 2014 in Nepal and stayed in Kathmandu. They had permission for filming from January 9 to 23. Later filming on Everest commenced on January 13, 2014. On January 14, Brolin and Hawkes filmed some shots at local terminal of Tribhuvan International Airport, and then they were to be filming at Lukla Airport on January 15, then to Namche Bazaar and later at the Everest Base Camp, news confirmed. After shooting completed in Nepal, the crews were to move to Italy and then in early March to UK to film at Pinewood Studios. On February 23, 2014, Jake Gyllenhaal was spotted in Rome, Italy during the filming of Everest which they recently wrapped up in Nepal, Josh Brolin was also spotted with his assistant Kathryn Boyd.

English actor Clive Standen said that filming on location in freezing temperatures has been "tough but fun". On March 24, 2014 the shooting was said to be taking place at the Everest Base Camp in Nepal.

On April 18, 2014, while the second unit crew was shooting some remaining scenes of the film at Camp II on Everest, an avalanche struck in an area, and sixteen Sherpa guides died. They were carrying equipment and supplies to camps for climbers in advance of the start of the summer climbing season. Deadline reported that there were no injuries or fatalities affecting the film crew. The production was not present where the disaster took place but they were nearby. Filming at Pinewood Studios in England was just about to finish up, but the second unit was shooting at the camp which then had to halt the production for some time.

Post-production

On July 2, 2014, it was announced that Dario Marianelli would be composing the music for the adventure film.

Release

Universal Pictures had originally slated the film for a September 18, 2015 release date. However, the date was later pushed back to September 25, 2015 in order to build word-of-mouth. The film will be first released in IMAX and premium large-format theaters on September 18, 2015, followed by a wide theatrical release on September 25, 2015. It was screened at the 2015 CineEurope on June 23, 2015 at the Centre Convencions Internacional Barcelona in full 3D Dolby Atmos. It will open the 72nd Venice International Film Festival. The film's world premiere will take place on September 2, 2015 in the Sala Grande at the city's Palazzo del Cinema.

Marketing

On February 12, 2014, the first photo from the set of the film was revealed featuring Clarke. On June 4, 2015, the first trailer for the film was released online, with an appeal for relief for the April 2015 Nepal earthquake through Oxfam America in the coda.

Other Everest film

Around the same time Sony Pictures was also working on a Everest film, but focused on George Mallory and set in the 1920s. By the time Everest started filming in 2014, Sony's film was called The Summit. (Not to be confused with a 2013 documentary about K2, The Summit)

See also

• List of people who died climbing Mount Everest
• List of media related to Mount Everest

External links

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