Outside Magazine Returns ‘Into the Wild’
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 08.15.07 | 10:25 AM ET
Based on Outside’s coverage of Sean Penn’s upcoming film adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s book “Into the Wild,” I’m upgrading my hopes about its quality. Christopher Keyes visited the set and compiled an oral history of the making of the movie for the September issue. He reveals that Penn has the support of the family of the movie’s subject, Christopher McCandless, and was apparently meticulous with the details of the story.
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.
Related on World Hum:
* ‘Into the Wild’: Sean Penn Adapts Jon Krakauer’s Book for the Big Screen
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Abby 12.05.07 | 12:41 PM ET
My 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!
mary jo matuska 12.08.07 | 1:14 PM ET
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.
I have read the book, I have the soundtrack to the movie, Eddie Vedder captured the feeling from the book wonderfully, hauntingly. Thank you Sean Penn for hiring him to do this, thank you Mr. Vedder for doing such a wonderful job.
Cosmin 04.16.08 | 6:05 PM ET
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.