The Way Back (Peter Weir)

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=49779

Peter Weir Goes Way Back
Source: Variety
October 16, 2008


Aussie Peter Weir is set to direct The Way Back, the fact-based story of the escape of soldiers from a Siberian gulag in 1940.

Production begins in March in Bulgaria.

Weir wrote the script and based it on several sources, most notably the Slavomir Rawicz book "The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom." The book is Rawicz's account of being captured by the Red Army in 1939 and his journey to freedom with other inmates. The group crossed the Siberian arctic, the Gobi desert and the Himalayas, finally settling in Tibet and India.

Weir will produce with Joni Levin, Duncan Henderson and Sinclair. Keith Clarke, John Ptak and East will be executive producers with Simon Oakes and Jonathan Schwartz.

The story has me interested and Weir is a good director.

 

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Any idea on when the trailer will be out?

PS: Some great pictures:

 

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Any idea on when the trailer will be out?

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[Doctor Jones]

Well count me in.

 

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Trailer

Does anyone has it on HD?

 

[Doctor Jones]

Looks good.

But Jesus, how long did they walk? I mean I don't think the Germans would bother to follow them all the way out to the desert.

 

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Trailer

Does anyone has it on HD?

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