The Mountain Between Us starring Kate Winslet and Idris Elba screens at the this year’s Toronto International Film Festival and then releases on October 20, 2017. The romance-disaster film is about journalist and surgeon who survive a plan crash with injuries and are stranded in the harsh Utah wildnerness and climate.
What if your life depended on a stranger? #MountainBetweenUs pic.twitter.com/RZ4TyqmJve
— Mountain Between (@MountainBetween) June 14, 2017
It was mostly filmed around British Columbia last winter from December 2016 through February 2017. Most of the mountain top scenes were shot around Invermere and Panorama Mountain Village near the British Columbia and Alberta border. Locations around the Lower Mainland include the Vancouver International Airport, the Abbotsford International Airport and the Eagle Ridge Hospital in Port Moody. Some re-shoots took place earlier this summer in London.
Director Hany Abu-Assad described the harsh filming conditions with harsh climate and cold temperatures. The day-to-day included driving 40 minutes to the film’s base camp and then weather permitting flying the cast and crew via helicopter to the mountaintop destinations for shooting. The winter survival movie is set in the High Unitas Wilderness located in northeastern Utah. The highest peak there reaches over 13,000 feet.
“Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across hundreds of miles of wilderness, pushing one another to endure and discovering strength they never knew possible. The film is directed by Academy Award nominee Hany Abu-Assad and stars Academy Award winner Kate Winslet and Golden Globe winner Idris Elba.”
The movie is based on the 2011 novel of the same name written by Charles Martin. The film adaptation was first being developed as a project in 2012. Previously, Michael Fassbender and Margot Robbie were cast to star in the movie.
Kate Winslet‘s most famous role was Rose Dawson in James Cameron’s Titanic alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. The role garnered her with nominations for both a Golden Globe and Academy Award which went to Judie Dench (Mrs Brown) and Helen Hunt (As Good as it Gets) respectively. She later went on to pickup 4 Golden Globes for The Reader, Revolutionary Road, Mildred Pierce and Steve Jobs as well as an Oscar for The Reader.
Idris Elba is known for his small screen roles in The Wire and Luther as well as big movies like Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Thor and Beasts of No Nation. He also made the news in recent years for talks about being the next 007. He has four Golden Globe nominations including one win and five Emmy nominations.
Hany Abu-Assad is an Israel-born Dutch/Palestinian film director with two Oscar nominations: Paradise Now in 2006 and Omar in 2013.
