Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt has
been cast to play Philippe Petit the French tightrope walker in director Robert
Zemeckis upcoming project To Reach the Clouds. The film is based on Petit’s
memoir, which was adapted by Zemeckis and Christopher Browne. At this point the
only things known is that the film’s third act will recreate the famous
tightrope walking between the towers of the World Trade Center in 1974 by Petit
and his co-conspirators and that the director is going for a 3D spectacle to better
explore the whole experience.
Production on To Reach the Clouds
is scheduled to start this May.
Petit’s life and WTC escapade
were once put on the big screen in the OSCAR winning feature documentary Man on
Wire.
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