Everest is a 2015 biographical adventure film directed and produced by Baltasar Kormákur and written by William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy, adapted from Beck Weathers' memoir Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest (2000). It stars an ensemble cast of Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly, Sam Worthington, Keira Knightley, Emily Watson, and Jake Gyllenhaal. It is based on the real events of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, and focuses on the survival attempts of two expedition groups, one led by Rob Hall (Clarke) and the other by Scott Fischer (Gyllenhaal).
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Directed by | Baltasar Kormákur |
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Based on | Left For Dead: My Journey Home from Everest by Beck Weathers |
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Music by | Dario Marianelli |
Cinematography | Salvatore Totino |
Edited by | Mick Audsley |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 121 minutes |
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Language | English |
Budget | $55 million |
Box office | $203.4 million |
The film opened the 72nd Venice International Film Festival on September 2, 2015, and was released theatrically on September 18, 2015. It was first released in IMAX 3D on September 11, 2015, in the UK and in IMAX 3D, RealD 3D, and 2D internationally, and exclusively in IMAX 3D, September 19, 2015 as a limited release in the United States and Canada, and along 36 other countries. It began a wide release in the United States on September 25, 2015. The film was a commercial success, grossing $203 million worldwide over a $55 million budget and received positive reviews from critics.
Screenplay
In May 1996, several commercial expeditions at base camp of Mount Everest prepare for a climb to the summit. Rob Hall, who popularized commercial Everest missions, leads Adventure Consultants; Scott Fischer is chief guide for Rob's rival, Mountain Madness. Rob's clients include Beck Weathers, an experienced climber; Doug Hansen, a former mailman pursuing his dream; climbing veteran Yasuko Namba, who hopes to complete her final Seven Summits ascent; and Outside magazine journalist Jon Krakauer. Helen Wilton manages Rob's base camp.
A month earlier in New Zealand, Rob says goodbye to his pregnant wife Jan and promises that he will be home for the birth. At the base camp Rob receives a fax from her, informing him that their baby, not yet born, is a girl. He wants to name her Sarah, but Jan disagrees.
Worried about climber crowding, Rob persuades Scott to cooperate to reduce delays. On the summit attempt, Rob's group departs Camp IV before dawn, planning to complete the ascent and turn around by 2:00 P.M., the latest safe time for return before nightfall. The group is delayed over an hour after discovering that guide ropes are not installed on upper reaches of the climb. Beck has eyesight problems and stops. Rob tells him to return if his condition does not improve in a half-hour. Scott hurries back down to camp to help another climber, but plans to re-ascend. Rob warns him about overexertion.
Rob reaches the summit on time and is joined by other climbers including Yasuko, who jubilantly plants her Japanese flag in the snow. Descending, Rob encounters Doug struggling just above the Hillary Step and orders him to turn back. Doug insists on continuing, saying that he won't get the chance again. Rob reluctantly agrees and they reach the summit two hours later, well past safe return time. At the summit, Doug is exhausted and increasingly suffering from altitude sickness. Also at the top is Scott, exhausted and increasingly ill from high-altitude pulmonary edema.
As Rob helps Doug descend, a blizzard strikes the mountain and Doug's oxygen tank is empty, causing him to suffer hypoxia. No extra bottles are stored on the route where Rob asked and he radios Helen to send someone up with oxygen. Doug, left alone briefly by Rob, semi-consciously detaches himself from the guide rope and walks unsteadily along the narrow path. He silently topples to his death a moment later.
Scott's condition worsens. He tells his fellow climbers to continue descending without him. He lies down and later dies. Returning climbers reach Beck, whose vision is still impaired, but they all become lost as the blizzard obliterates the trail. Three climbers go for help, leaving Beck and Yasuko behind.
Guide Andy 'Harold' Harris reaches Rob with spare oxygen, but it is frozen shut. They huddle in place in the storm. While Rob sleeps, Andy begins to have hallucinations. He strips off his outer clothing and slides off the mountainside to his death. In the morning, Rob radios Helen that Doug and Andy are gone, and that his hands and feet are frozen. Helen calls Jan, hoping Rob will respond to her voice. Jan tells Rob that he must start moving. Rob tells her that he is cold but comfortable, and asks her to name their baby Sarah. He dies soon after.
Returning climbers tell the camp that Beck and Yasuko are stranded. The weather, however, makes rescue impossible. Helen calls Beck's wife, Peach, and informs her of the situation. In the morning, Beck miraculously awakens, witnesses Yasuko's corpse, and stumbles back to camp alone, severely frostbitten, and in desperate need of medical help. Peach calls the American Embassy and organizes a helicopter rescue. Nepal Army pilot Lt. Col. Madan Khatri Chhetri successfully flies a harrowing high altitude mission to evacuate Beck. Meanwhile, one of Scott's guides, Anatoli, finds his body, and moves it off the trail.
Returning home, Helen has an emotional reunion with Jan, who later gives birth and names her daughter Sarah. Beck returns to his family, heavily bandaged. Closing titles reveal that he lost both hands and nose to severe frostbite, and that Rob's body remains on Everest.
- Jason Clarke as Rob Hall, a New Zealand expedition group leader - Makes it to Summit but dies on way down - Wife has baby, Sarah
- Jake Gyllenhaal as Scott Fischer, an American expedition group leader He dies from altitude sickness, exhaustion and the storm on descent
- Josh Brolin as Beck Weathers, a U.S doctor and amateur mountain climber - Does not reach summit but lives with loss of two hands - Helicopter rescue. Wrote Left for Dead: my Journey Home from Everest in 2000
- Robin Wright as Peach Weathers, Beck's wife who remains in Texas
- John Hawkes as Doug Hansen, a mailman and amateur mountain climber - Makes it to the summit on this second try but runs out of oxygen and falls to death
- Sam Worthington as Guy Cotter, a professional guide
- Michael Kelly as Jon Krakauer, a journalist and amateur mountain climber. Survived and wrote Into Thin Air (1997) which was basis for a TV movie
- Keira Knightley as Jan Arnold, Rob Hall's pregnant wife who remains home in New Zealand - Gives birth to Sarah after Rob's death
- Emily Watson as Helen Wilton, the base camp manager
- Thomas Wright as Michael Groom, an Australian mountain climber - Survivor guide on Hall team, Adventure Consultants
- Martin Henderson as Andy "Harold" Harris, a professional guide - Andy gets rescue Oxygen to Rob but dies overnight in storm
- Elizabeth Debicki as Dr. Caroline Mackenzie, the base camp physician
- Naoko Mori as Yasuko Namba, an experienced amateur mountain climber - Reaches the summit, her seventh, but dies on descent
- Clive Standen as Ed Viesturs
- Vanessa Kirby as Sandy Hill
- Tom Goodman-Hill as Neal Beidleman - Reached summit and survivor as guide on Fischer's team, Mountain Madness
- Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson as Anatoli Boukreev - A guide with Scott's team who survived and wrote The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (1997)
- Charlotte Bøving as Lene Gammelgaard, a successful Danish climber in Fischer's group - Survivor who wrote, Climbing High: A Woman's Account of Surviving the Everest Tragedy (2000)
- Micah Hauptman as David Breashears, a documentary filmmaker and mountaineer
- Chris Reilly as Klev Schoening - Turned back and a survivor of Fischer's team
- Chike Chan as Makalu Gau - Leader of Taiwanese expedition
- Vijay Lama as Lt. Col. Madan Khatri Chhetri, Nepal Army helicopter pilot - Rescues Beck Weathers
- Mark Derwin as Lou Kasischke -Turns back and is a Hall team survivor who writes book After the Wind: 1996 Everest Tragedy: One Survivor's Story (2014)
- Mia Goth as Meg, Weathers' daughter
Development
Baltasar Kormákur directed the film, about the 1996 disastrous expedition to scale Mount Everest, which was scripted by Simon Beaufoy and Mark Medoff, with early script adaptations carried out by Justin Isbell and William Nicholson. The film was produced by Working Title Films. Universal Pictures distributes the film in the United States. The film was produced by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, and started shooting in November 2013. In September 2013, Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films were set to co-finance the film, but in October they exited as co-financiers.
After the production start date of 6 November 2013 had passed, Cross Creek Pictures and Walden Media joined the production on 12 November 2013, and financed the film with $65 million. The film started production on 13 January 2014, in the Ötztal Alps in Italy, after which production moved to Nepal and Iceland. On 11 December 2013, The Hollywood Reporter posted that South Tyrol's regional film board added $1 million to the film's funding.
On 30 January 2014, Universal set a 27 February 2015 release date for the film, but on 21 March 2014, it was moved to 18 September 2015.
Pre-production
As of 19 February 2013, Christian Bale was in talks to join the cast of the disaster film to play Rob Hall, the leader of a New Zealand group who ran Adventure Consultants. On 17 July, Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Jason Clarke and John Hawkes were cast as leads in the film. Bale dropped out around this time. Gyllenhaal played Scott Fischer, the leader of the Mountain Madness expedition; Brolin played Beck Weathers, a doctor; Clarke took the role of Rob Hall, also an expedition leader; and Hawkes played Doug Hansen, one of Rob Hall's clients, who encounters difficulties on the descent from the summit of Everest.
On 4 February 2014, Clive Standen also joined the cast, while shooting was underway. On 7 February 2014, more cast was added to the film, including Martin Henderson, Emily Watson, Thomas M. Wright, and Michael Kelly. Watson played a motherly base camp figure who works closely with Rob Hall, and Kelly played Into Thin Air author Jon Krakauer. On 17 February, actor Micah Hauptman was added to the cast in the role of filmmaker and mountaineer David Breashears, who directed the 1998 IMAX documentary film Everest. On 24 March 2014, Sam Worthington and Robin Wright joined the cast. Worthington played Guy Cotter and Wright played Beck Weathers' wife, Peach. On 1 May, DailyMail.co.uk revealed that Keira Knightley had joined the film as Jan Arnold, Rob Hall's pregnant wife.
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