Back in 2006, book critic Barbara Scott claimed that “’The Long Walk’ is so cinematic that you have to wonder why it has never been made into a movie.”
That statement proved to be prescient because now that novel about a handful of prisoners crossing over the planet’s harshest terrain in order to see freedom has been turned into a film by the phenomenal Peter Weir.
The director of masterful human stories like Master and Commander, Dead Poets Society, and Witness now has a trailer out there in the world for his latest – The Way Back. It looks treacherous and raw. It appears to be Man vs Nature in all its glory.
See for yourself:
It boasts a fine cast featuring Jim Sturgess, Colin Farrell, Saoirse Ronan, Ed Harris, Mark Strong, and other foreign-born talents like Dragos Bucur. Hopefully they’ll last longer than the guys from Van Diemen’s Land did before turning to cannibalism.
What do you think?
