Title: The Walk
Original Title: The Walk
Year: 2015
Info
- Country: USA
- Length: 123 Minutes (2 hours 3 min)
- Budget: $35,000,000
- Genre: Drama
- Studios: ImageMovers TriStar Pictures
- Distributor: Sony Pictures Releasing
Release Dates
- UK: October 02 2015
- United States: October 02 2015
Plot
Robert Zemeckis, director of 'Back to the Future', 'Forrest Gump' and 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit', takes a leap. 'The Walk' is an adaptation of the memoirs of Philippe Petit, the French tightrope walker who, in 1974, crossed the Twin Towers walk on a rigid wire stretched for the occasion. Petit is played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who was chosen for the role, reportedly because he was a gymnast in his youth. The film recounts how Petit managed to enter the building, the vicissitudes suffered by him and his friends and cronies, including his mentor Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), to fulfill their dream, totally crazy and spectacular. 'The Walk' takes advantage of the last developments in movie technology to take the audience to the highest point of the Twin Towers and to make them feel the vertigo and the adrenaline that Philippe Petit felt when he put his foot on the wire that made him part of last century's History.
Cast
Director:
Philippe Petit
Jean- Pierre
Annie
Papa Rudy
Jean-Louis
Guy Tozolli
Barry Greenhouse
Videos
September 21 2015
June 5 2015
Photos
Trivia
Ben Kingsley and James Badge Dale starred together in Iron Man 3 (2013)
Police officers names, Genco, Tessio and Clemenza, directly refer to 'The Godfather'.
This feature film is based on the same book as James Marsh's documentary Man on Wire (2008).
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