But we're going to have to wait a while yet!
"Director Stephen Daldry is collaborating with Universal Studios and the British production company
Working Title Films on a new Hollywood film about the notorious May 1996 disaster on Everest, in
which eight people died on the mountain in a single day.
Daldry is best known for his 2003 Academy Award-winning drama, The Hours, starring Nicole Kidman. He
also directed the 2000 blockbuster Billy Elliot.
The new Everest film will depict the deadly expedition that was the subject of Jon Krakauer's 1996
award-winning Outside feature story, "Into Thin Air," which subsequently became a worldwide best-
selling book. The network television film, Into Thin Air: Death on Everest, also debuted in 1997 and
is available on video.
Many of the climbing scenes in Daldry's movie will be shot on Everest by renowned mountaineer and
cinematographer David Breashears, who summited the mountain during the deadly 1996 season while
filming the IMAX documentary, Everest (released in 1998). Breashears' upcoming project, however,
will mark the first convergence of a major Hollywood production with real mountaineering on Everest.
Breashears, who has already reached the top of Everest four times, will begin filming on the
mountain in March. He and the climbing team plan to summit the 29,035-foot mountain during the
shoot, according to British co-producer Jon Finn. "[Breashears] will be shooting background views of
the top of Everest," he says.
The film crew expects to return to Everest during the spring 2005 climbing season to shoot
additional scenes on the mountain. No release date for the movie has been announced."
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