Christian Bale to Star in Baltasar Kormakur’s EVEREST

[Wangman Page]

Back in December, Steve spoke with director Baltasar Kormakur (Contraband) about his upcoming project, Everest. “It’s a very, very big movie with a medium budget,â€￾ said Kormakur. He also said that they wanted to try and get as high up the mountain as possible, and also spend three months shooting on a glacier. According to Deadline, Christian Bale should get his crampons ready. The film is based on the disastrous 1996 expedition that left eight climbers dead, and Bale is in talks to play the lead role. Jon Krakauer chronicled the event in his must-read first-hand account of the tragedy, Into Thin Air. However, Everest will not be an adaptation on that book, and instead draw from multiple sources including interviews with survivors. Kormakur’s film is not to be confused with Doug Liman‘s project of the same name, which is set to star Tom Hardy as Sir George Mallory, the first person to reach the peak of the world’s tallest mountain.

Kormakur is currently up for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film for his survival picture, The Deep. He also directed the upcoming action flick 2 Guns starring Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington. Bale will be seen later this year in Out of the Furnace.

Sounds like the movie Alive but with Mountain Climbers, wait more like K2 or Vertical Limit.

 

[Fuji Vice]

Man, I haven't seen K2 for a long time but I remember really liking it. Vertical Limit? Not so much, but it was still decent. Mountain climbing movies are usually average to good, so I can see this working out well.