On 7 August 1974, a lone French aerialist, Philippe Petit, captured the world’s imagination with a seemingly impossible high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York’s World Trade Center. Now, some forty-years later, utilizing the latest in state of the art visual effects, 3D and IMAX technology director Robert Zemeckis has recreated that moment for The Walk.
Zemeckis’s film is based around that historical moment and it chronicles Petit’s life and his thoughts during the history-making feat. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sir Ben Kingsley and Charlotte Le Bon, The Walk promises to put audiences in the thick of the action, as close as any of us will ever come to walking amongst the clouds ourselves.
The Walk premieres worldwide October, 2015.