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Just Keep Walking

By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (11)

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In 1941, a group of prisoners from the a camp of the Siberian Gulag escaped and proceeded to spend a year trekking 4000 miles across the various deserts and frozen wastes of Central Asia. They climbed the Himalayas on foot and crossed into British India, where they then separated and disappeared into the population. Now that is a fucking story.

Of course the memoir that tells the story (The Long Walk by Sławomir Rawicz) might be completely made up. Either that or it’s true, but Rawicz stole some Polish guy’s life story. You can’t make this shit up. Unless you edit a page on Wikipedia, but that would be cheating.

Anyway, they’ve made a movie version of it starring Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Saoirse Ronan, Jim Sturgess and Mark Strong among others. And it looks fantastic.


The Way Back is getting a limited release in December (presumably to qualify for awards season) and a wide release in January.









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Comments

Farrell and Harris and the adorable Saoirse. I love when Farrell does that brooding face. The only thing this film is missing is Viggo.

Posted by: PaddyDog at October 14, 2010 10:26 AM

Curse you work blocker!

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at October 14, 2010 10:32 AM

The only thing this film is missing is Viggo. Ooooh! Or Brody!

Posted by: coveredinbees at October 14, 2010 10:44 AM

I looked at that picture and thought, "Oooh, a Terence Stamp movie! Interesting!" Then I thought, "That's not Terence Stamp. Wait. Is that... no... it can't be Ed Harris." Then I read the article and thought, "Wow, that's Ed Harris."

Now I must read this book. Then I must see the movie. Because Ed Harris is Ed motherfucking Harris. Oh and he was John Glenn once too. But he was John Glenn when Scott Glenn played Alan Shepherd. Because that didn't confuse my 9 year old brain AT ALL.

Wait. What were we talking about? Oh yeah, Gary Oldman OWNS the Jim Gordon role. Crap. That's another post.

Posted by: lubeg at October 14, 2010 10:54 AM

I can't WAIT for this. I've been looking forward to it for my whole life. Well, maybe not that long, but at least for a few months...

Posted by: Gabs at October 14, 2010 11:10 AM

The cast is full of win.

Posted by: DeistBrawler at October 14, 2010 12:04 PM

This looks amazing. But holy goodness, HOW has Ed Harris not won an Oscar yet!?! Craziness. (Anyone know when his baseball movie is coming out??)

Will definitely put both this and the book on my to-read list.

Posted by: grace b at October 14, 2010 12:53 PM

Nice. A new book to consider. I'm tearing through "The Hunger Games" trilogy and will probably be sniffing around for a good read next week. This "Rawicz" character better hope the sample I download to my Kindle is good or I won't buy it. You hear me, Slawomir?! I won't buy it!!!

Posted by: Kballs at October 14, 2010 1:53 PM

That looks epic!

Witness, The Mosquito Coast, Dead Poets Society, Gallipoli, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Year of Living Dangerously, Fearless, Master & Commander, The Truman Show - Peter Weir easily has one of the most impressive strike rates.

Posted by: Simon at October 14, 2010 2:23 PM

Why didn't they just follow Brad Pitt over the Himalayas? Oh yeah, because it took him 7 years and he wound up in Tibet.

TWO groups of people tramped over the Himalalys in the 1940's? They should have put in some traffic lights. From what I've read, the author of this story is a liar, liar, pants on fire. But what the hell, movies don't have to be true (although it would be nicer if they advertised it based upon a book rather than a true story.)

Posted by: Patricia at October 14, 2010 4:22 PM

Wait. What were we talking about? Oh yeah, Gary Oldman OWNS the Jim Gordon role. Crap. That's another post.

Posted by: lubeg at October 14, 2010 10:54 AM

A.D.D. much?

Posted by: Uriah Creep at October 14, 2010 11:01 PM