This is a power point presentation on the 2015 film Everest.

2. Production
 Producers – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Nicky Kentish Barnes, Tyler
Thompson and Brian Oliver
 Production Company – Cross Creek Pictures (also involved in
Legend and Pride And Prejudice and Zombies), Walden Media
(BFG)and Working Title Films (Legend and the Danish Girl)
 Director – Baltasar Kormakur
 Financing/Budget - $55 million, the film has grossed over $202
million.
 Technology - 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, green screen

3. Development
 Writer – William Nicholson (screenplay) and Simon
Beaufoy (screenplay)
 Casting – Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes,
Robin Wright, Emily Watson Keira Knightley, Sam
Worthington and Jake Gyllenhaal.

4. Genre / Story
 Professional climbers Rob Hall (Clarke) and Scott
Fischer (Gyllenhaal) lead rival groups of extreme
sports tourists up the world's highest mountain, with
disastrous consequences. The actors are so bundled
up that the dialogue is at times incomprehensible
and the characters hard to tell apart, but despite a
dragging first act it's a visually awesome and brutally
effective weepie, Knightley in particular being very
good.

5.  Director: Baltasar Kormakur
 Baltasar Kormákur is an actor, producer and director
whose work spans theater, movies and television.
Born in Reykjavik, Iceland, he graduated as an actor
from Iceland's National Academy of Fine Arts in
1990.
 In 2000, he wrote, directed, acted in and produced
the feature film "101 Reykjavik," which became an
international hit and earned the Discovery Award at
the Toronto International Film Festival.

6.  He is best known for directing the films 101
Reykjavík, Hafið, A Little Trip to Heaven, a film based
on the book Mýrin (Jar City) by Arnaldur Indriðason,
Contraband, and 2 Guns (starring Mark Wahlberg
and Denzel Washington).

7. Talent
 Actors (stars): Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John
Hawkes, Robin Wright, Emily Watson, Keira
Knightley, Sam Worthington, Jake Gyllenhaall
 Music director – Dario Marianelli

8. Shooting
 Kent Harvey
 They built a really impressive Base Camp at Cinecitta
Studios in Italy and they built the Hillary Step on the
famous 007 stage at Pinewood Studios in England.
 It was all surrounded in green screen. The main unit did
actually travel to Nepal and film the actors on the trek to
Base Camp, but because of the altitude they couldn’t
spend a lot of time up high. They would basically
helicopter in, jump out, film some scenes, jump back in
the heli, and head back down valley.

9. Shooting
 What we were able to get before the avalanche was
helpful, but they also ended up just reaching out to
photographers who had spent time on Everest over
the last five years. They used everything from older
footage to still photographs.
 The material they shot, combined with older footage
and historic photos of the mountain and some shots
in Italy’s Dolomites, help lay the foundation for the
sweeping, computer enhanced imagery that is so
crucial to selling a film of this magnitude to
audiences.

10. Shooting
 HARVEY: I was in charge of shooting some action
sequences and stunt work in the Dolomites, which
doubled as the Himalaya for some scenes. But the big
task was shooting what we call plate-and-tile work of
Everest itself, which would serve as backdrops to the
close-ups and studio cinematography. A lot of the Everest
summit scenes you see in the film were shot on
soundstages, so they still needed the wide establishing
shots to lay behind those in post-production. Our plan
[before the Icefall collapse] was to film all the way to the
summit.

11. Interesting Info
 On April 18, 2014, while the second unit crew was
shooting remaining scenes of the film at Camp II on
Everest, an avalanche struck, killing 16 Sherpa
guides. The Sherpas were carrying equipment and
supplies to camps for climbers in advance of the
start of the summer climbing season. Deadline
reported there were no injuries or fatalities affecting
the film crew. The production was not present where
the disaster took place, but they were nearby.

12. Marketing
 Universal Studios is the distributor
 On February 12, 2014, the first photo from the set of
the film was revealed, featuring Clarke.
 On June 4, 2015, the first trailer for the film was
released online, with an appeal for relief for the April
2015 Nepal earthquake through Oxfam America in
the coda.

13. Marketing
 “It’s total bull,” said the author of “Into Thin Air,” which in
fact was not the basis for Everest despite being based on
the same events depicted in the film. “Anyone who goes
to that movie and wants a fact-based account should read
‘Into Thin Air,'” he told the Los Angeles Times
 Krakauer’s book recounts his experience on the world’s
highest mountain, where eight climbers died during an
unexpected storm. The author sold the rights to the 1997
bestseller to Sony Pictures, which led to a television
movie about the events that same year.

14. Marketing
 The film has its own twitter account
‘@everestthemovie’ with 5,629 followers
 It has a fan page on facebook

15. Rotten Tomato
 Average rating – 6.7/10
 Reviews counted 194
 Fresh – 154
 Rotten – 40
 72%