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Directed by six-time Academy Award (R) nominee Peter Weir, THE WAY BACK is an epic narrative of survival, solidarity and indomitable human will. Shot in Bulgaria, Morocco and India, the picture stars Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe, The Other Boleyn Girl), Ed Harris (Appaloosa) and Colin Farrell (In Bruges) as prisoners of a Soviet Union task housing in collapsible shelters, who, along with four other people, leave their Siberian Gulag and commence a underhand trip through thousands of miles of hostile terrain. Academy Award (R) nominee Saoirse Ronan (Atonement, The Lovely Bones) and Mark Strong (Body of Lies, RocknRolla) co-star. Written by Weir and Keith Clarke, the picture is Peter's first since 2003's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. It is encouraged by the acclaimed journal The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom, as well as first-person statements and anecdotes as advised to, and examined by Weir and manager maker Clarke. Produced by Joni Levin, Peter Weir, Duncan Henderson (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World) and Nigel Sinclair (Terminator 3: Salvation), THE WAY BACK is an Exclusive Media Group, National Geographic Entertainment and ImageNation Abu Dhabi demonstration and an Exclusive Films production. Keith Clarke, John Ptak, Guy East, Simon Oakes, Tobin Armbrust, Jake Eberts, Edward Borgerding, Mohamed Khalaf, Adam Leipzig, Scott Rudin and Jonathan Schwartz are Executive Producers. The film's Co-Producer is Roee Sharon Peled and Co-Executive Producer is Alex Brunner. Weir has put concurrently an progressed to gathering of filmmakers with who he has beforehand joined, embracing Academy Award (R) victorious Director of Photography Russell Boyd (Master and Commander, The Year of Living Dangerously, Gallipoli), Film Editor Lee Smith (Master and Commander, as well as The Dark Knight, for which he accepted an Academy Award (R) nomination), Production Designer John Stoddart (Fearless, The Mosquito Coast) and Costume Designer Wendy Stites, Oscar (R) nominated for Master and Commander and with credits on nine Weir films
Directed by: Peter Weir
Release Date: January 21, 2011
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