Smith and Irritu is based in part on Michael Punke's 2002 novel of the same name, which describes frontiersman Hugh Glass's experiences in 1823 that novel is, in turn, based on the 1915 poem The Song of Hugh Glass.
#Where was the revenant filmed movie
Whether you just want to visit a real movie set - or be pulled around by some dogs the Spray Lakes are a fun winter destination. The Revenant is a 2015 American epic Revisionist Western film directed by Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu.The screenplay by Mark L. > News > December 2015 > Inside ‘The Revenant’, new movie about 1823 grizzly bear mauling of mountain man Hugh Glass Over the falls This scene sequence was filmed at Kootenai Falls on the Kootenai River between Libby and Troy, Montana. The Spray Lakes are used for power generation - so the level of the water fluctuates causing big heaves in the water level which makes the ice crack. You have to wait until the lake is pretty frozen to do anything. There's a company that runs dogsled tours here. Usually it's cowboy something (Hell on Wheels), or miserable winter (Fargo) - but still it's good. It's great to see the movie industry using Alberta as a back drop. Being local, I got up before security and was able to get pretty close before someone stopped me from taking pictures. When the movie was being filmed in I managed to snag a couple of pictures of the set. Although the The Revenant was mostly filmed in an extensive area near Calgary in Alberta, Canada, its remote filming locations also included a scene shot in the neighboring state of Montana as. Most of the time you can see them eating near the creek. There's lots of wildlife around too, if you get there early enough - and at the far end there's a family of Moose that hang out near Mount Engadine Lodge. Most of the winter the lakes are used for ice fishing (see the red hut), cross country skiing, snow shoeing and dog sledding. It is windy, but it's not nearly as desolate as the movie would make you believe. Interestingly they used this location in the Revenant with Leonardo DiCaprio to film a lot of the winter scenes and that epic walking across the lake scene. Im not saying that I dont enjoy films that are longer than an hour, for example the Deer Hunter lasted about three days and. Even though it was a big Smurf bear, it still had to be as authentic as possible.The Spray Lakes are one of our go-to places to visit summer or winter. Alejandro was adamant that the blue bear moved just like a real bear would move, and it was essential that it had the same nuances that a bear would have. “Obviously that doesn’t make it into the film, and the CGI guys paint the bear in. “In rehearsals, I would wear a blue suit with a bear head,” he said. The Revenant was filmed in Burnaby, Calgary, Canmore, Drumheller, Fortress Mountain, Kananaskis, Libby, Mammoth Studios, Morley, San Francisco Mountain. “The closest a bear ever got to set (that we knew of) was at the Calgary Zoo.”Įnnis was one of two stuntmen who stood in for the computer-generated bear while filming was taking place, and was charged with portraying as convincing a grizzly as possible. “There was no bear ever on set,” stuntman Glenn Ennis told Global News. When I first saw The Revenant, it reminded me of a Terrance Malik film, one of my favorite directors. The only other films that have affected me this way are Apocalypse Now, Baraka, & A New World. However, as authentic as the grizzly appears, the now-infamous beast is actually a result of CGI. The Revenant is now on my list of jaw-dropping films, and Im keeping an eye out for more films by Alejandro González Iñárritu. The Revenanthas been making waves in the movie world since its Christmas day release, particularly for the hyper-realistic scene in which Leonardo DiCaprio’s character is savagely attacked by a bear.