ROTTEN TOMATOES: Penn to Direct Hirsch "Into the Wild"

Penn to Direct Hirsch "Into the Wild"

by Scott Weinberg | February 02, 2006

Sean Penn will direct "Into the Wild" for Paramount Classics, a project that is based on the book by Jon Krakauer. Emile Hirsch will star as an ill-fated young adventure-seeker named Christopher McCandless.

From Variety: "Paramount's specialty division has signed Sean Penn to direct Alaska adventure "Into the Wild," with Emile Hirsch ("Lords of Dogtown") to star.

Project is based on Penn's adaptation of Jon Krakauer's bestseller.

Hirsch will portray Christopher McCandless, who graduated from college in 1992, abandoned his possessions and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness and return to nature. He died four months later in an abandoned bus at a remote campsite."

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Bummer of an final destination, but I'm guessing the journey will be one well worth watching.

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lovelykeira writes:
on Feb 02 2006 02:22 PM

Sounds like it could be pretty good with Hirsch and Penn. This is one of my dad's favorite books of all time.

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cowsfan writes:
on Feb 02 2006 08:03 PM

Good to see Penn directing again. I thought 'The Pledge' with Jack Nicholson was a great film.

According to IMDB he is announced as producer on Stacy Peralta's 'In Search Of Captain Zero'.

Cheers,
Kevin

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renodc writes:
on Feb 03 2006 11:57 AM

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If anyone can make "Into the Wild" boring, it is Sean Penn.

I've seen "the Pledge", but never all at once because I couldn't ever stay awake.
I think watching the grass grow would have been more entertaining than watching "the Pledge".

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ruralak writes:
on May 02 2006 06:53 AM

[b]Alex Supertramp wasn't[/b]
Seriously people, this kid was an Idiot. He did nothing special, and died soley because of his own stupidity.
I've read the book. Been to the bus (years ago). Seen them filming the movie.
McCandles life journey was not worth a book, and not worth a movie.

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mcjeffery writes:
on Oct 06 2006 11:06 AM

[b]take another look[/b]
It seems like most of the people who think McCandless was a fool live in rural Alaska and are much a part of the wild environment everyday. To them, it's really no big feat to just walk into the bush without the essential supplies, it's really just stupid and idiotic. I can understand that point of view, although I do think the kid was extrarodinary. He gave up a being born into a wealth family, all his money, car, everything just so he could live the way he wanted to. He could have done anything in life, anything at all, and what he truly wanted was to stay as grounded as he could and value the earth and his own way of thinking. He gave his parents one last nod of "thank you" when he agreed to go to college, where he had stellar grades, and graduated. He chose to live in a low-rent apartment with no furniture because he didn't need any furniture or niceties. Then he gaver all his savings away and walked the United States for many months with nothing. He just wanted to live that way. What we might never know is if he really meant to die out there. He hinted at dying in the bush before he even entered it, and it seems unreasonable to think someone who had already survived so long on his own wouldn't be able to find his way out. He did so much that was incredible before he even went to Alaska. But if I was someone from up there and had been there my whole life, I too might think he was dumb.

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