Over the weekend the soaring mountain-climbing drama Everest opened exclusively in IMAX theaters and got off to a hot to start. That was a film uniquely positioned to use use the technology's full capabilities and audiences turned out to see it that way. Robert Zemeckis is going to take a similar approach with his high-wire film, The Walk, which stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Philippe Petit who walked a tightrope across the World Trade Center Towers.
The vertical spectacle is captured in a new 5-minute IMAX trailer that promises to take Petit's story, which has been chronicled in other films, to unseen heights. Co-starring Ben Kingsley, Charlotte Le Bon, and James Badge Dale, the story centers on Petit and his circle of collaborators as they plot the daring act. The trailer really pushes the technical aspects but also the heist qualities of the story, making it potentially one of the more unique films to arrive later this year.
The Walk hits IMAX theaters September 30th, elsewhere on October 9th.
