First Photos of Peter Weir's New WWII Film 'The Way Back'

"Its been almost seven years since Peter Weir last directed anything. I don't know where he's been all this time, but I'm glad he's back. Quiet Earth found the first six photos from Weir's new WWII film The Way Back. The drama follows a group of soldiers and prisoners who escape from a Siberian labor camp in 1940 during WWII. "Seven courageous multi-national prisoners discover the true meaning of friendship as their epic journey takes them across thousands of miles of hostile terrain en-route to India and their freedom." Starring in this film is Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Saoirse Ronan, Mark Strong, and Jim Sturgess."

First Photos of Peter Weir's New WWII Film 'The Way Back' « FirstShowing.net

 

Im going to greatly be looking forward to watching this movie. Its right up my "alley" of interests ;-))

I have no s but will try to leave you reps for this ;-))

 

I see a lot of similarties to a book called A Long Walk, basically the "true story" of a Polish Soldier who was captured by the Soviets when they invaded finds a group of people who escape with him form the Gulag. Together they walk all the way to British India, where they are split up and the guy sees a Yeti. It was of course proved to be fake in 2004 when the BBC found out that he was released for the Gulags courtesy of the British through some sort of deal with the Soviets.

Sounds very similar so far. =/

Why couldn't they do one of Clemens Forell instead? The 2002 film didn't get as much reception outside of Europe since no big name backed it.