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Oh JGL, where have you been? Cinema hasn’t been the same since we last saw you but thankfully you’re back in theaters with another immersing film to help us take a break from reality. This time JGL has hooked up with superstar director Robert Zemeckis to share another film based on non-fiction (who does that?). This film is one that’s sure to evoke an emotion or two out of (us) New Yorkers with JGL taking on the role of Phillip Petit to bring to life the astounding high-wire walk the performer is famous for between New York City’s former Twin Towers. If you’ve read up to this point then it’s safe to say that you’ve watched the trailer or that the 30 second ad has completed and you can now watch the trailer. That being said I have one thing to say:
OM F’n G!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m not one to be afraid of heights, (usually), but this trailer scared the hell out of me! And JGL is the only human being in this thing. Robert Zemeckis uses his mastery in everything to evoke an incredible sense of height and depth in this 2D trailer that got my heart palpitating and my nerves shot in under 2 minutes. If that’s not enough the film promises to translate that fear and suspense into the 3rd dimension! I say all the time that there aren’t enough films that motivate people to run into the theater to watch, but this one is clearly not in that category. This is a ‘theater-only’ type film the likes of Avatar or Pacific Rim. I’m impressed and this film is officially Radar approved.
The teaser for Zemeckis’ new film, The Walk, unveils the first glimpse of the director’s visually stunning creation of a lost time and place: the World Trade Center towers as they were in 1974. That was the year young Philippe Petit captured the world’s imagination with a seemingly impossible high-wire caper.
40 years after Petit’s impossible dream, Zemeckis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (portraying Petit) are themselves accomplishing the seemingly impossible: bringing the lost towers back to epic life. Only in cinema is this possible now. Seeing the film as both a madcap caper and a love letter to the towers, Zemeckis is doing much more than telling this story: he’s showing it in a true big screen experience. Using the latest in state-of-the-art visual effects, 3D, and IMAX technology, the film will make moviegoers feel as close as they will ever come to walking on clouds.
The film is an expansive story of the characters and events that led up to the famous walk – including Philippe’s experiences growing up, his romantic entanglements and the complicated relationship with his surrogate father Papa Rudy (Sir Ben Kingsley). The cast also includes Charlotte Le Bon as Petit’s lover, as well as James Badge Dale and Ben Schwartz as members of the ragtag gang he recruits to pull off the absurdly ambitious and dangerous “heist.”
Set for release on October 2, 2015. Directed by Robert Zemeckis.
Source: Sony Pictures
