At one point called "To Reach the Clouds" or To Walk the Clouds The film charts the life of French high-wire walker Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), whose stunts were chronicled in 2008's acclaimed documentary "Man on Wire".
Based on Petit’s own memoir, the story centers around Petit's feat of walking across a wire between New York City's World Trade Center in 1974 - a stunt he spent six years planning and preparing for. Because he'd executed his stunt without official permission, he was arrested as soon as he stepped off the wire. All charges against him were ultimately dropped. In his time, Petit also performed high wire walks between the towers of CathĂ©drale Notre-Dame de Paris, and the north pylons of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Ben Kingsley, James Badge Dale, Charlotte LeBon and Steve Valentine co-star.
Director Robert Zemeckis wanted to call action after seeing Alfonso Cuaron's Oscar-winning pic "Gravity". Zemeckis co-wrote the adapted screenplay with Christopher Browne.
Tom Rothman will produce the film.
The film will be a photo-realistic 3D. Production is set for this summer to meet its release on October 2, 2015.
Speaking with EW, Rothman says: "When it comes time to step on the wire - and take you where only one human being in history has gone, and no one will ever be again - [Zemeckis] does it in visual ways that abso-f--king-lutely blow your mind. There are shots in the third act of this film that literally take your breath away."
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