The Revenant
Blood lost. Life found.
Country
Production
Budget
$135 000 000
Revenue
$532 950 503
Director
Actors
Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, Forrest Goodluck, Duane Howard, Arthur RedCloud, Melaw Nakehk'o, Grace Dove, Lukas Haas
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Steve Golin, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Arnon Milchan, James W. Skotchdopole, Keith Redmon, Mary Parent, Philip Lee, Brett Ratner, Jake Myers, David Kanter
Operator
Composer
Artist
Jack Fisk, Chris Beach
Audition
Editing
Short description
Set in the 1820s American wilderness, The Revenant follows Hugh Glass, a frontiersman serving with an expedition led by Captain Andrew Henry. When a grizzly bear mauls Glass and leaves him near death, two men are paid to stay behind and see to his burial. They abandon him instead, and Glass, surviving against the odds, sets out across a hostile landscape to find the companion who betrayed him. The story draws on the real-life figure of Glass, though the film builds its own version of his ordeal.
Alejandro González Iñárritu directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Mark L. Smith, and produced alongside Steve Golin and Arnon Milchan. It is the tenth of the thirteen films he has directed, arriving after Birdman and before BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Glass, with Tom Hardy as John Fitzgerald, Domhnall Gleeson as Captain Henry, Will Poulter as Jim Bridger, Forrest Goodluck as Hawk and Duane Howard as Elk Dog. The production, made across Hong Kong, Canada, the United States and Taiwan, carried a budget of 135 million dollars and returned 533 million dollars worldwide.
On IMDb the film holds 8 out of 10 from roughly 944,000 votes, and on TMDB 7.5 out of 10 from about 19,725 votes. A critics' rating of 7.9 out of 10 from 402 reviews places it close to the audience scores, suggesting a broadly similar response from reviewers and viewers.
What's left behind the scenes
- To film the avalanche scene in the Canadian province of Alberta, explosives were dropped onto the mountaintop by helicopter, and filming was done from a crane. All of this had to be shot in one take.
- To film the piles of bison skulls, production designer Jack Fisk and set dresser Hamish Pardi initially tried to find 10,000 bison skulls, but soon realized it would cost the filmmakers a fortune. Instead, they obtained a few real skulls, which were used as models to create five types of rubber replicas. In a single day, they produced 100 such replicas, filled them with expanded polystyrene, and attached them to a frame made of wire and lightweight wood. This structure had to be assembled as quickly as possible to avoid missing the light required for filming.
- Vegetarian Leonardo DiCaprio became so immersed in the role that in the scene where his character Hugh Glass eats bison liver, he actually ate raw meat.
- Tom Hardy claims he never reads scripts. When preparing to film "Splinter Cell," based on the stealth-action video game series created by Tom Clancy, Leonardo DiCaprio convinced him to read the script for "The Revenant." Hardy read half the script and agreed to participate in the filming.
- The screenplay, adapted from Michael Punke's 2003 novel of the same name, was written by Iñárritu and Mark L. Smith, and is partly based on the life of frontiersman Hugh Glass.
- The film "The Revenant" marked composer Ryuichi Sakamoto's return to Western cinema. Sakamoto wrote the soundtrack for Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Last Emperor" (1987), which won Academy, Golden Globe, and Grammy Awards. Sakamoto’s last project in Hollywood before "The Revenant" was Brian De Palma’s "Snake Eyes" (1998).
- In 1971, the film *Jeremiah Johnson* was released, its plotline of which somewhat resembles the story of Hugh Glass, although the characters were presented under different names. *Jeremiah Johnson* starred Richard Harris and John Huston.
- *The Revenant* was the first narrative feature film shot on the new 6.5k ARRI 65 camera.
- As in the film *Inception* (2010), *The Revenant* starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, and Lukas Haas.
- Sean Penn was initially chosen for the role of John Fitzgerald, but he had to decline due to his commitment to another project. As a result, the role of Fitzgerald went to Tom Hardy.
- The project for "The Revenant" was launched in August 2001, when producer Akiva Goldsman acquired the rights to adapt Michael Punke's yet-unpublished book, "The Revenant." The first draft of the future film's screenplay was written by David Rabe.
- This is Leonardo DiCaprio's first role in two years since the release of "The Wolf of Wall Street" (2013).
- Paul Anderson and Tom Hardy reunited on the set of "The Revenant," having previously worked together on the British television series "Peaky Blinders" (2013).
- The film is based on real events from 1823 and tells the story of Hugh Glass, who was mauled by a bear and abandoned by his companions to die, believing his end was inevitable.
- Leonardo DiCaprio was offered the role in 'Steve Jobs' (2015), but he chose to play the lead role in 'The Revenant.'
- Initially, Park Chan-wook took over production and envisioned Samuel L. Jackson in the lead role, but he later left the project.
- Production designer Jack Fisk wanted the fort to appear dilapidated and worn. Tree trunks felled with the approval of the Canadian Parks and Wildlife Service were used to build the structures comprising the set. When they arrived in Calgary, Fisk found the trunks too fresh, so he ordered them to be “aged” – repeatedly lifted into the air with a forklift and dropped to the ground – until they inevitably lost their “marketable appearance,” at which point the crew began constructing the sets from them.
- The filmmakers allocated 9 months for filming, although the actual shooting took only 80 days. The unusual length of filming was due to weather conditions, the remoteness of the locations, and the desire of director Alejandro G. Iñárritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki to shoot only in natural light to achieve maximum realism. Only a few hours were spent filming each day, so each shooting day had to be planned in advance.
- One of the two stunt performers portraying the grizzly bear was Glenn Ennis (6'3" tall).
- This is the third film in which Jacob Tomuri performed stunts for Tom Hardy. They had previously worked together on "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015) and "Legend" (2015).
- According to Leonardo DiCaprio, the lead actor, this was the most challenging role of his career. The actor had to learn to shoot a musket, start a fire, speak two Native American languages (Pawnee and Arikara), and work with a doctor specializing in ancient healing practices.
- Filming in Canada fell behind schedule and the snow melted. The film crew had to move south to Argentina, where there was still snow at that time.
- New Regency Pictures was left without a partner and funding when they began to doubt the advisability of their participation in the project. As a result, the film’s production had to be postponed for 2 months. Progress was made only when Annapurna Pictures, led by Megan Ellison, decided to act as a financial partner to New Regency Pictures.
- The trailer for the film was released on July 17, 2015. It garnered over 7 million views in less than 36 hours.
- Initially, director Alejandro González Iñárritu wanted to film a mountain of human skulls as a symbol of the impending destruction of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. One day, production designer Jack Fisk showed him a photograph from 1850 depicting people standing amidst a pile of bison skulls and told him how, by decision of the government in Washington, North American Indians were being deprived of their food sources. Iñárritu immediately decided to replace the human skulls with animal skulls.
- In one of the scenes of the bear attack episode, Leonardo DiCaprio was jerked around in different directions using ropes attached to his body.
- The role of Jim Bridger was played by Will Poulter. Brad Pitt's character, Lieutenant Aldo Raine in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" (2009), referred to himself as a "direct descendant of the hunter Jim Bridger".
- Joshua Burdge, who played Shorty Bill, had never appeared in a feature film before 2010. It is believed that someone saw his audition tape with director Joel Potrykus. The actor was contacted and asked to provide a demo reel. Shortly thereafter, Joshua Burdge flew to Canada to film "The Revenant."
- Work on the project was halted until 2010, when Mark L. Smith adapted Pankey’s book for Steve Golin’s Anonymous Content. In May 2010, Mark L. Smith stated that John Hillcoat would direct the film and that negotiations were underway with Christian Bale for the lead role. Hillcoat left the project in October of the same year. Jean-François Richet was considered as a director, but a contract was ultimately signed with Alejandro González Iñárritu.
- To film the bear attack as realistically as possible, director Alejandro González Iñárritu consulted with Werner Herzog, the director of the documentary television film "Grizzly Man" (2005). He was particularly interested in the sounds the predator makes when attacking a human.
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