Wind River
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Short description
Wind River is a crime drama set in the snowbound wilderness of Wyoming, on and around a Native American reservation. A wildlife officer who tracks predators for a living finds the body of a young woman in the frozen backcountry, and his discovery brings in a rookie FBI agent from outside the state. She is unprepared for the terrain, the weather and the tight-knit community, so she asks the tracker to help her work the case. The investigation sets the two of them against a harsh landscape, the suspicion of the people who live there, and the violence that surrounds the death.
Taylor Sheridan wrote the screenplay and directed the film, his first time in the director's chair. He went on to direct Those Who Wish Me Dead in 2021. Jeremy Renner plays the tracker Cory Lambert, with Elizabeth Olsen as FBI agent Jane Banner. The supporting cast includes Gil Birmingham, Graham Greene, Jon Bernthal and Kelsey Asbille.
Produced by Peter Berg, Basil Iwanyk and Matthew George, the film had a budget of about 11 million US dollars and took roughly 45 million worldwide, a strong return on its cost. Reception was solid and consistent: a critics' rating of 7.7 out of 10 from 257 reviews, on IMDb 7.7 out of 10 from more than 272,000 votes, and on TMDB 7.4 out of 10 from nearly 6,000 votes. Audience and critical scores sit closely together, pointing to broad agreement rather than a divided response.
What's left behind the scenes
- Filming took place in Park City, Utah. This is also where the Sundance Film Festival is held, where the film premiered on January 21, 2017.
- During filming, Elizabeth Olsen developed snow blindness – an inflammation of the eyes caused by sunlight reflected off the snow.
- Filming on location took place in terrible weather conditions, requiring actors and the creative team, along with their equipment, to be transported to and from the set on snowmobiles, as conventional vehicles proved completely unsuitable. After vehicles had traversed the untouched snow, the tracks had to be covered up to maintain the pristine snowy landscapes in the shots.
- Initially, it was announced that Chris Pine and Elizabeth Olsen would play the lead roles. Subsequently, Pine left the project, and his role was given to Jeremy Renner.
- After cases of Harvey Weinstein's harassment of women came to light in 2017, Taylor Sheridan called David Glasser, then chairman of The Weinstein Company, with an ultimatum, demanding that the company remove its logo from the film and agree to forgo profits from its distribution, and adding that the company could not count on future collaboration with him. Glasser accepted the terms of the ultimatum without reservation.
- During filming, the director and screenwriter Taylor Sheridan was approached by chiefs of the Shoshone (a North American group of Indian tribes) who reported twelve unsolved cases of murdered girls within the reservation, where approximately 6,000 people lived. Due to a government decree adopted in 1978, the US Supreme Court deprived Native American tribes of the right to arrest and punish non-Native Americans who committed crimes on reservation land. In cases where neither the victim nor the perpetrator were Native American, only a county or state police officer could make an arrest. However, if the perpetrator was non-Native American and the victim was Native American, the right to make an arrest was reserved solely for a federal law enforcement official. In cases where the perpetrator was Native American and the victim was not, a police officer hired by Native American tribes could make the arrest, but the case had to be tried exclusively in federal court. As a result, a legal nightmare arose within the reservations, and many criminals did not face any punishment for serious crimes.
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