What you may need to know:
1. Unhinged French fella walks on a wire between the Twin Towers for an hour.
2. It’s a dramatisation of the true story of French acrobat Philippe Petit, subject of the Oscar-winning documentary Man on Wire (2008).
3. Spoilers! CBS news lets us know how it all ended.
4. Joseph Gordon Levitt may feel he struggled with that French accent but I can assure him he did.
5. Levitt was reminded of his fame in 2013 by some paparazzi and he made a little movie about it.
6. Broadsheet Prognosis: You want Freedom Tower fries with that?
Release Date: October 2, 2015
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Requires a Not Safe for Vertigo Sufferers warning I reckon.
and those prone to accent related cringing!
He doesn’t fall, the buildings though…
Too soon
I splutterd. Coffee everywhere. Good stuff.
There no way that it could be as gripping as the documentary, I’m struggling to see the point in it.
+1 Exactly what I thought when I heard it was being made, what’s the point when the documentary covered it so well.
Maybe it’s for the ‘Imma not watching no edumacation documentary!’ folk?
Agree 100%. Why on earth did they bother when the documentary featuring the REAL PERSON already covered the story so brilliantly? Waste of time and money.
It does seem a bit silly seeing as the documentary was so good. It’s Robert Zemeckis though, odds are this is an exercise in technology, in this case 3D.
I came here to make the same point. I suppose the fact that we know the story is so good may make us want to see it dramatised. It should be better than most Hollywood movies, these days.
Just watch “Man on Wire” – it’s amazing.
“UNLIKE ANYTHING YOU’VE SEEN BEFORE”…… Unless you seen Man On Wire and the countless other video’s and interviews about this… Also Philippe Petit isn’t a likeable person i remember he came across as a eejit
“walks on a wire between the Twin Towers or an hour”
What?
Joseph Gordon Levitt? Why does he still have a career- a carton of milk has more range.
Why is this a movie?