![]() ![]() Larry Charles (of Borat and Brüno) was briefly attached as director, but eventually the job went to Ken Kwapis, whose most recent film was Big Miracle and who was a key figure on the U.S. īy November 2013, Nick Nolte had been cast to costar as Katz. In February 2012, it was reported that novelist Richard Russo, during a speech at Union College, confirmed that he was working on the screenplay. The backdrop is pretty terrific, if you stop to think of all the visuals that are possible as they go along that trail. Also, it's a chance to take a look at the country . I don't know when I've read a book that I laughed so loud. However, in January 2008, the Hollywood Reporter, while noting that the script was delayed due to the Hollywood writers' strike, reported that Barry Levinson, the Academy Award–winning director of Rain Man, was in talks to direct. In February 2007, Chris Columbus, director of Home Alone and the first two Harry Potter films, was reported to have agreed to direct the adaptation. However, Newman retired from acting in May 2007 and died in 2008. He also hoped that his erstwhile co-star and friend, Paul Newman, would team up with him to play the role of Katz, although he jokingly expressed doubt as to whether the health-conscious Newman would consider putting on enough weight to accurately portray the rotund Katz. In 2005, Robert Redford announced, and later confirmed, that he would star in and produce an adaptation of Bryson's book into a film, and that he would play Bryson. He also identified the Berkshires as the part of the Trail that he would most like to re-hike. Whilst pleased with his accomplishments on the Trail, Bryson expressed regret that he and Angerer had not completed the 100-Mile Wilderness section. And then it started to work much better, I think, as a narrative." ![]() I made it much more that he was angry with the trail rather than angry with life.so it really became the two of us against the trail. And it was just depressing.my revelation with that was, instead of making him just depressed, I just made him angry, which he also was. A long walk, a really long walk, is an exceedingly repetitious experience…when I finally got a book out of it, I was kind of astounded." He described himself as "wretchedly homesick" during his hike and that he had had to fictionalize some of Angerer's behavior, as "he was quite depressed at this time.he just felt like life had kicked him in the balls and he wasn’t doing very well. Writing process īryson admitted that he found the book hard to write, remarking in an interview that "the thing about walking is that it's not eventful. Bryson quotes the older figure of 10%.Īt the time of his attempt to hike the Appalachian Trail, Bryson was aged in his forties. In the 21st Century, about 25% of thru-hike attempts are successful. Ultimately Bryson hiked about 40% of the trail. In the following months Bryson continues to hike several smaller parts of the trail, including a visit to Centralia, Pennsylvania, the site of a coal seam fire, and eventually reunites with Katz to hike the Hundred-Mile Wilderness in Maine, which again proves too daunting. This section of the hike finally ends (after nearly 800 miles (1,300 km) of hiking) with Bryson going on a book tour and Katz returning to Des Moines, Iowa, to work. The book recounts Bryson's desire to seek easier terrain as well as "a powerful urge not to be this far south any longer". They skip a huge section of the trail, beginning again in Roanoke, Virginia. Overburdened, they soon discard much extra food and equipment to lighten their loads.Īfter hiking for what seemed to him a large distance, they realize they have still barely begun while in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and that the whole endeavor is simply too much for them. He and his old friend Stephen Katz start hiking the trail from Georgia in the South, and stumble in the beginning with the difficulties of getting used to their equipment Bryson also soon realizes how difficult it is to travel with his friend, who is a crude, overweight recovering alcoholic, and even less prepared for the ordeal than he is. The book starts with Bryson explaining his curiosity about the Appalachian Trail near his house. ![]()
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