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TRAVEL BLOG8.15.07
Outside Magazine Returns ‘Into the Wild’
Star Emile Hirsch, Penn and the crew shot the movie in 36 locations where McCandless traveled, not including the Alaskan locale where he passed away in an abandoned bus. “I knew I wasn’t going to shoot there,” Penn tells Keyes. “It would have been obnoxious, a kind of rape of the area to have a whole crew there.” Instead they searched for a month and shot at a nearby location on another bus. Keyes’s entire story isn’t yet available online, but there is a 17-minute interview with him that covers many of the details, as well as his own fascination with the story of Christopher McCandless. For now, Oustide has also put Krakauer’s original January 1993 story Death of an Innocent: How Christopher McCandless Lost His Way in the Wilds on the front page of its Web site.
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COMMENTSMy daughter was working in Denali when the movie was being filmed. The book was being promoted and she was fascinated with the story and read it. When the movie came out she was visiting us and we went to see the movie. I thought it was wonderful! I have recommended the book and movie to everyone! She bought the book for her brother and me. My son and I discuss the book, often! By on 12.5.07 at 08:41 AM
Into the Wild was a book that stayed with me . We have a son, a free spirited one. We were in Alaska camping and hiking a few years ago, I can understand why Chris wanted to be there, it is dangerous, but it is freedom.
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I cannot agree more with Mary. The music Eddie Vedder put together for this movie is amaizing. I’m listening to it on my IPod this very moment. The only negative aspect about both the movie and the book is that it really happened, that’s what it saddens me most. By on 4.16.08 at 02:05 PM
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Based on Outside’s coverage of Sean Penn’s upcoming film adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s book “Into the Wild,” I’m upgrading 
