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Can't wait to see the storm of sh1t this generates

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2719848/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Shame it's still a year away

In reply to imkevinmc:

WTF!!!! you have got to be kidding me!!!!

In reply to Little Brew:

Would I lie to you.

According to Keira the summit was constructed in a giant deep freeze of a sound stage.

Her lead in the credits took her all of 5 days to fulfil

In reply to imkevinmc:

I seriously can't wait to see this!

In reply to imkevinmc:

I've downloaded this, and I'm really looking forward to it.

http://steepedge.com/categories/mountaineering/everest-the-hard-way.html

In reply to imkevinmc:

That's quite a heavyweight cast. Approximately 6 Oscar nominations between them.

In reply to imkevinmc:


So two thirds of the movie will be based around a horrendous descent!

In reply to Blue Straggler:


And 2 of em are down to Emily?

In reply to imkevinmc:

"A hiking expedition on Mt. Everest is devastated by a severe snow storm."

So, what was once Man's greatest challenge has now become a hiking trip?

Also interesting that they have an actor playng Ed Viesturs. Vertical Limit had the man himself.

It will be a bag of shite.

In reply to graeme jackson:


And his acting, as himself, was embarrassing. Seriously!

btw "hiking" in American English does tend to mean something rather more hardcore than ambling along Offa's Dyke. It kind of equates to "mountaineering" minus any "sheer face climbing", so I am given to believe

In reply to imkevinmc:

Do you remember everyone getting excited about A Lonely Place to Die because it was British (as if that is any guarantee of realism...) and the trailer appeared to feature some real climbing and it looked like climbing would feature extensively?

And then I was the first to report having seen it, and explained that there was about 6 minutes of climbing scenes and they were 80% wrong

Maybe this Everest movie will subvert expectations.

In reply to Padraig:


Well done, have a biscuit. I didn't check before guessing six. Maybe there's more in there?

In reply to imkevinmc:

will be interesting to see how they make the dolomites and iceland look like himalaya

In reply to imkevinmc:

It's going to be sh!te isn't it.

In reply to imkevinmc:

I know a couple of people working on it. It's "Into Thin Air" dramatised. They've both made or worked on plenty of classic mountaineering films/documentaries and seem pretty confident about it, although you never know what will finally be edited together..

In reply to Ben_SteepEdge:


Indeed. A lot of such films include hugely experienced mountaineers and mountaineering videographers etc. on their crew, and you still end up with daft scenes in yer Vertical Limits etc (and moronic posts on here asking "why didn't they have any experts on hand to make it realistic")

Into Thin Air has been dramatised before as a made-for-TV movie called "Into Thin Air". Interesting that it's come round again 18 years after "the event" as a bigger production. Looks like this one is not based only on Krakauer's account though, but a "blend".

I say "shush with the nay-saying until the film is seen". That cast really is solid.

In reply to imkevinmc:

Unless there's some rope cutting and a case of nitro-glycerene it'll be rubbish.

In reply to graeme jackson:


You're giving me some good ideas for my next visit to Stoney M...

In reply to imkevinmc:

Well that's 2015's 1000 post plus thread sorted out then.......

Will be curious as to how they portray Boukreev.

In reply to Removed User:



Yes, I wonder if they take on board the legitimate criticism that the book got about its portrayal of Boukreev.