By Jason Apuzzo. New clips went online recently over at Collider of Peter Weir’s forthcoming film, The Way Back. Currently in Oscar contention, The Way Back stars Colin Farrell and Ed Harris and tells the story of an escape of a small group of prisoners from a Soviet-Siberian gulag in 1940, and of their epic journey over thousands of miles to freedom.
The film starts its limited release on January 21st, and you can read Joe Bendel’s LFM review of it here. Peter Weir has also done recent interviews on the film here and here.
Posted on January 18th, 2011 at 12:36pm.
This film looks pretty good. Somewhat depressing, but good. I like Ed Harris’ line “Don’t call me comrade.” Wow. I thought he was a total lefty, but I guess even he’s willing to admit the Soviets were evil.
Am I the only one though to find Colin Farrell’s Russian accent faintly comical?
Actually, I thought it was pretty good. He himself, however …