First Image: Robert Redford In J.C. Chandor-Directed ‘All Is Lost’
Here is a first look at Robert Redford battling the elements in All Is Lost, the film scripted and directed J.C. Chandor, who helmed the financial crisis thriller Margin Call.Chandor met Redford at the Sundance Film Festival, and was so taken by the indie film patriarch that he wrote a project specifically for him. And Redford, who can be elusive in committing, stepped up and put himself through quite an ordeal. Deadline was first to reveal this unusual project, which has just wrapped principal photography at Baja Studios in Rosarito, Mexico. It’s a man vs. nature drama, and it’s all Redford, all the time, as he goes Jeremiah Johnson after getting lost at sea and struggling against the elements to stay alive.
From the look of the photo, they put that giant water tank at Baja Studios to good use. Before The Door Pictures’ Neal Dodson and Washington Square Films’ Anna Gerb produced along with Justin Nappi and Teddy Schwarzman. The exec producers are Joshua Blum, Zachary Quinto, Corey Moosa, Cassian Elwes, Laura Rister, Robert Ogden Barnum, Glen Basner and Kevin Turen, a roster much longer than the cast list on this one. FilmNation is handling offshore sales and has already sold out the world, with Universal Pictures International distributing in a large part of the planet. Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions will release stateside.
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looks amazing. kind of insane, actually. good for them. and kudos to lions gate.
Men in film are more than ever joining women on the soulless production line of high plastic 21st century objectification – see quiptastic modern media androids typified by Ryan Reynolds, as well as the preening synthetic meatheads of “Magic Mike” – that seeing an elements-blasted Redford facing off a typhoon should prove restorative, maybe even cutting edge.
Please, no whip-panning or ultra high speed zooms in any and all trailers and promotional materials.
What are you talking about? This movie is about one old guy lost at sea. How could you compare it to the “meat heats in majic mike” ??
Also, if you saw Chandor’s first film Margin Call I think it’s safe to say there aren’t going to be a whole lot of “Whip- panning and high speed zooms” whatever those are.
I think if you read the post you replied to, you find that you and he are in agreement that “All Is Lost” will be completely different than “Magic Mike” — and for the same reasons.
Ummm.. yeah.. Im willing to bet that’s not Robert Redford. Who wants to take that action?
Haha, that was my first thought too. Redford’s double, you mean.
Neal Dodson is one of THE NICEST guys in town and has the talent to match. Very happy for this guy. Hell of a start!
Holy crap. Isn’t Redford like 70 years old. For his sake I hope all those waves are CGI.
I didn’t even know this was shooting! I can’t wait to see it.
Can’t wait to see Redford on the big screen again – one of the most elegant leading men of all time.
Redford is an engaging, intelligent actor and it will be great to get to see him on the big screen again in a nature survival story.
I get so tired of the “wrote this role specifically for X actor in mind.”
Oh, really? Because you’ve never heard of ACTING? You know, where people pretend to be other other people? Lots of people are good at it, you know. And it’s not as if you wouldn’t let this movie get financed and made with, God forbid, an actor like Gene Hackman or Harrison Ford. No no, it just HAS to be Redford, because that’s who you were PICTURING as you typed away.
Please. It costs writers nothing to say this and is utter hogwash.
If it’s half as great as Wind, White Squall and Morning Light, they’ve got a hit on their hands! Audiences love movies about yacht trouble!
There was not trouble with the boat in Morning Light. In fact, that was the trouble with the movie. Did you see it?
If it’s half as great as all those movies they’re in deep s***!