Tristar today announced that principal photography has wrapped on Robert Zemeckis’s new movie THE WALK. The film stars Joseph-Gordon Levitt and revolves around Philippe Petit’s famous 1974 illegal walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. We’ve got a bit of a wait until this one gets its release in cinemas (it’s scheduled for late 2015), but we do have a few official images from the film and a ‘wrap’ banner to share with you (see above).
Twelve people have walked on the moon, but only one man has ever, or will ever, walk in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. Guided by his real-life mentor, Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), and aided by an unlikely band of international recruits, Petit and his gang overcome long odds, betrayals, dissension and countless close calls to conceive and execute their mad plan. Robert Zemeckis, the director of such marvels as Forrest Gump, Cast Away, Back to the Future, Polar Express and Flight, again uses cutting edge technology in the service of an emotional, character-driven story. With innovative photorealistic techniques and IMAX 3D wizardry, The Walk is true big-screen cinema, a chance for moviegoers to viscerally experience the feeling of reaching the clouds. The film is a love letter to Paris and New York City in the 1970s, but most of all, to the Towers of the World Trade Center.
Today (August 7th, 2014) is incidentally, the 40th anniversary of the legendary walk.
James Badge Dale, Ben Schwartz, Charlotte Le Bon, Clément Sibony and César Domboy also star in the film, which was co-written by Zemeckis and Christopher Browne.
Check out two images from the production below, and keep it THN for more news on this remarkable project.
Source: Tristar
