“‘The Sound’ benefits greatly from our team’s unparalleled authenticity, coupled with their incredible experiences in pushing the boundaries of what is humanly possible in the climbing world. “Working with such monumental figures in the climbing community is nothing short of an honor,” said Devane in a statement to Deadline. A British-American mountaineer who has summited Mount Everest multiple times, Ballinger was previously seen in an episode of HBO’s Edge of the Earth. Also known for daring free solo climbs and big wall ascents is Harrington, who was previously spotlighted in the Roadside Attractions documentary The Alpinist. Honnold rose to fame via the Academy Award-winning National Geographic documentary Free Solo, chronicling his jaw-dropping and historic free-solo ascent of Yosemite rock formation, El Capitan. James Iha of Grammy-winning rock Band Smashing Pumpkins is composing the score. Devane and his Sadieland Productions banner are producing, with Sports Emmy-winning producer Mike Negri ( The Alpinist, Reel Rock) and second-unit DP Brett Lowell ( The Climb) on board to help coordinate stunt sequences. The only problem is that no one knew if Honnold would ever actually free solo El Capitan, and no one knew if he’d die during production.Intel on the climbers’ roles hasn’t been disclosed, but Fichtner portrays Conner, a father who is faced with losing his son in the same way he lost his father at a young age. Free Solo, riding on the back of Meru’s success and Honnold’s star power, had funding from a studio and was always intended to be turned into a feature film. Only after he succeeded did he realize that maybe he had enough footage to make a movie. Chin shot Meru on handheld cameras and Go Pros while attempting to summit Meru on two different occasions. “But then, because he’s my friend, I don’t really want to push him on certain things because it makes me feel awkward, so it really helped we had two people on it coming from different perspectives.”īoth Meru and Free Solo are triumphs of human will, but were made in very different ways. “If you know someone really well, you have a certain type of access that someone that doesn’t know them as well won’t get, and that’s really helpful because you are trying to get intimate access, more of the real person, the real subject you’re filming,” Chin said. As he explains it, the audience sees Honnold try-and fail-this move a handful of times, falling onto his rope and giving it another go. Earlier in the film Free Solo, Honnold describes exactly what he needs to do to succeed: Grab a nub of rock with his left thumb, step his feet over onto similarly small “ledge” beneath him, then switch from his left thumb to his right thumb, and “karate kick” one of his feet onto another vertical wall only friction is holding him up. By contrast, it is almost unbearable to watch the greatest moment in rock climbing history even once, though I similarly can’t seem to shake it from my mind.Īlex Honnold, the 33-year-old climbing superstar, is inching his way across the “Boulder Problem,” a vertical pitch more than a thousand feet above the ground on Yosemite National Park’s legendary El Capitan. The greatest moments in sports history are designed to be played on repeat most sports fans have, for instance, memorized Michael Jordan’s buzzer beater in Game 6 of the 1996 NBA Finals.
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