Everest
2015 filmWhen his off-the-grid best buddy Ben Baker inherits his estranged father's fortune, womanizing local weatherman Steve Dallas joins forces with him to battle the legal challenge brought by Ben's formidable sister.
Release date: September 18, 2015 (USA)
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Running time: 2h 30m
Story by: Jon Krakauer
Everest is an upcoming 2015 American 3D epic adventure action thriller climate disaster drama film directed and edited by Baltasar Kormákur and written by Justin Isbell, William Nicholson, Mark Medoff and Academy Award winner Simon Beaufoy.[2] The film stars Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly, Sam Worthington, Keira Knightley, Emily Watson and Jake Gyllenhaal.
The film is set for a September 18, 2015 release date. It is based on the real events of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, as described in the books Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer, Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest by Beck Weathers, Climbing High by Lene Gammelgaard, After the Wind: 1996 Everest Tragedy – One Survivor’s Story by Lou Kasischke, The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt, and The Death Zone: Climbing Everest through the Killer Storm by Matt Dickinson.
The book "The Storms" (author Mike Trueman) published on 1st May 2015, completes the story first told in Into Thin Air, including the events at Rob Hall's base camp, which feature prominently in the film.
It will focus on the summit and survival attempts of two expedition groups, the one led by Scott Fischer (played by Jake Gyllenhaal), and the one led by Rob Hall (played by Jason Clarke).
