But, all in all, the script was an amalgamation of stories, something director Baltasar Kormákur insisted on. Let's make it about a guy who was up there who shouldn't survive but does, and about a guy who absolutely should survive and doesn't.' And that's Beck Weathers and Rob Hall,' producer Tim Bevan told Outside Online of the script.Īll the main characters are based on real people, though the film took some creative liberties when it came to secondary characters. Let's make it about Adventure Consultants. Here's how the filmmakers actually went about making the adaptation: Writing The ScriptĬo-written by Simon Beaufoy ( The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) and William Nicholson ( Gladiator), Everest sticks pretty close to the original story of 1996, or at least, as closely as possible given the varied accounts. With the trailers for Everest boasting the film's 'Based On A True Story' origins, it might be easy to assume that one of these texts was the basis for the movie, but, in fact, neither book is credited as inspiring the story.

Jon Krakauer (played by Kelly) and Weathers (played by Brolin) both contributed harrowing accounts of their brushes with death, and Krakauer's especially successful Into Thin Air inspired a made-for-television film, Into Thin Air: Death on Everest. Some lucky climbers survived their treacherous descent through the blizzard and lived to tell the tale, releasing books about their ordeal. But how accurate is Everest in telling the real events of that year? There's plenty of story for it to rely on in May of 1996, eight people died after a strong blizzard stranded groups of climbers at the top of Mount Everest just after they had reached the summit, making the event, at the time, the largest loss of life in a single day on Everest.

Hollywood stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Michael Kelly, John Hawkes and more step into the boots of real-life climbers in Everest, the new Hollywood thriller inspired by the real events of the 1996 disaster on the mountain.

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