We won't lie: This first trailer for Robert Zemeckis' The Walk totally gave us the willies. The Back to the Future and Forrest Gump director returns to screens next October 2 with the real-life tale of Philippe Petit (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who, along with a group of friends, managed to infiltrate the World Trade Center back in 1974 in order to stage a wickedly dangerous stunt that involved walking on a tightrope between buildings.
Let's see how your fear of heights handles this first trailer...
Oh, and that's not even the half of it. Zemeckis has planned for his film to be the IMAX 3D event movie of next fall, having utilized photorealistic techniques to lend a visceral and immersive quality to the movie. Let's just say that we'll all feel like we're walking between World Trade buildings on a tightrope when this sucker hits theaters.
“The caper is really compelling. It’s outrageous,” Zemeckis told EW. “It’s the story of an artist who risks his life to create a performance.” Petit's story was previously told in the award-winning 2008 documentary Man on Wire. Zemeckis added, “Nobody does this anymore—something that is, uh, anarchistically benevolent. Banksy is the only guy who does this anymore. I wonder why that is, why people have gotten so…boring.”
Well if there's one thing this movie looks like, it ain't boring. What do you think?
Here's the official synopsis:
Twelve people have walked on the moon, but only one man has ever, or will ever, walk in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. Guided by his real-life mentor, Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), and aided by an unlikely band of international recruits, Petit and his gang overcome long odds, betrayals, dissension and countless close calls to conceive and execute their mad plan.
And here's the first poster...
