While Alejandro González Iñárritu is currently deep into the awards season run for his latest film, Birdman, he’s also pulling double duty, shooting his next film (one of our 100 most-anticipated of the year) in the same time-frame. The Revenant, an adaptation of Michael Punke‘s 19th century-set western novel, follows Leonardo DiCaprio as Hugh Glass, an injured fur trapper who’s robbed by two men after he can’t be brought back to civilization; after being left for dead, he escapes the wilderness and goes to find revenge.
The first images from the film have now dropped over at EW, revealing the director and star on set, as well as DiCaprio taking aim. It’s also revealed that cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki can shoot just a few hours each day as they are capturing the film in natural light only in remote locations. “It’s a very experimental thing that we’re doing here…I’m now addicted to doing things that can fail horribly or maybe that can give us a surprise. We are all into it,” the director says. Also starring Tom Hardy, Will Poulter, and Domnhall Gleeson, check out the images above and below.
The Revenant opens on December 25th.