Sean Penn’s new film INTO THE WILD hits screens later this month but someone (who broke some major copyright laws) slipped Moviefone a sneak peak and posted clip so I thought I would post it here in case someone was curious, like I was.
Because I read the original Jon Krakauer INTO THE WILD novel and it was awesome. Nonfiction at its best. Powerful, powerful stuff with true-to-life Robert Jordan as the main character.
This Krakauer fellow seems to really be an outdoorsman because he almost died climbing Everest and wrote about it in his book INTO THIN AIR. INTO THIN AIR was also awesome; I finished it in two days while on a high school leadership camp in Washington D.C., but that’s a whole different survival story (the leadership camp, that is).
So, this brings me back to INTO THE WILD, the Sean Penn movie based on the novel, INTO THE WILD, by famed nonfiction author/near-death surviver Jon Krakauer. You see, while I loved the original book and have waited years for its cinematic companion, I’m afraid.
I’m afraid Sean Penn will turn this amazingly inspiring true story and turn it into a blob of film. Now I’m not some Sean Penn hater, but I did see the PLEDGE and barely remember it because it was barely mediocre. So, you see, while I enjoy Sean Penn the actor, I feel his directing talents tread in the shallow end of the gene pool.
And now this Sean Penn character has secured the rights to the novel, adapted it and turned it into his movie. And that’s it for INTO THE WILD — no more movie versions after this one. Sean Penn has the one chance to make this into the great film that it should — that it deserves to be — and I just hope he hasn’t created some wandering, half-baked mishmash. Anyway, check out the clip here and judge for yourself.
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