“Nobody will go to a film because the guys were on schedule and on budget. It’s how good the film is,” Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu recently said, commenting on The Revenant‘s tough shoot and $135 million budget, ballooning from a proposed $60 million. Leonardo DiCaprio echoed the struggle, saying, “I can name 30 or 40 sequences that were some of the most difficult things I’ve ever had to do. Whether it’s going in and out of frozen rivers, or sleeping in animal carcasses, or what I ate on set. [I was] enduring freezing cold and possible hypothermia constantly.
With the first guild screenings happening in just under a month for the film that’s rumored to clock in around 2.5 hours, we’ll see if the rough experience produced anything worthwhile, but first we have another look at the production through quite a beautiful lens. Throughout the shoot, cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki showed off some of the cast and locations through snaps on his Instagram account, and now with a hat tip to Indiewire, we have them in a full gallery. With the main cast, also including Tom Hardy and Domhnall Gleeson, being at the forefront of the marketing, this provides an ideal, different angle to go behind-the-scenes.
Check out the Instagram posts below, along with new stills of Hardy and DiCaprio (above and below), and Neil Kellerhouse‘s poster.
Inspired by true events, THE REVENANT is an immersive and visceral cinematic experience capturing one man’s epic adventure of survival and the extraordinary power of the human spirit. In an expedition of the uncharted American wilderness, legendary explorer Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) is brutally attacked by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. In a quest to survive, Glass endures unimaginable grief as well as the betrayal of his confidant John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy). Guided by sheer will and the love of his family, Glass must navigate a vicious winter in a relentless pursuit to live and find redemption. THE REVENANT is directed and co-written by renowned filmmaker, Academy Award® winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Birdman, Babel).
The Revenant opens on December 25th.