Everest Behind The Scenes Featurettes

by Helen Earnshaw | 6 September 2015

Everest is set to be a movie that will have you on the edge of your seat this autumn as Baltasar Kormákur returns to the director's chair.

Everest

Everest is based on the real events of the 1996 disaster on Mount Everest and is the first film for Kormákur since 2 Guns back in the summer of 2013.

This is one of the autumn movies that I cannot wait to see and we have two great new featurettes that take you behind the scenes. This first film sees actor Jason Clarke talking about his character Rob Hall:

As well as shooting in Italy and at Pinewood Studios in London, the production did shoot on Everest itself and this new featurette explores the importance of filming on the mountain:

Everest boasts one of the best cast lists of the autumn as Clarke is joined by Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Sam Worthington, Emily Watson, John Hawkes, Keira Knightley, Robin Wright, and Elizabeth Debicki.

Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, Everest documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind.

Their mettle tested by the harshest elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.

Everest had the honour of opening the Venice Film Festival earlier this week and is set to be a movie not to miss when it is released later this month - it could also be a film that finds itself in the Oscar mix at the beginning of next year.