Baltasar Kormákur’s latest action-adventure, Everest, takes a host of A-listers and imperils them at the top of the world’s tallest mountain. For his next trip or two, the stakes look equally high. When Empire spoke to the Icelandic director earlier in the summer, he shared his plans for two Hollywood projects currently in the pipeline.
"I've got an oil-spill movie coming up and a Viking movie,” he revealed. “The Viking project is another big one, [and] we’re working on both scripts.” The former rekindles an idea that Kormákur was forced to abandon in pre-production when Mel Gibson’s ultimately-abortive movie was announced. "I had this project ten years ago, when Lord Of The Rings and all these things were coming out,” he rues. "I made this Viking story and I got the biggest support from the Iceland Film Fund, but I realised I couldn't really create the world I wanted. I could only make a small version of it. [Mel Gibson's version] really fucked me up, you know? Because I was no Mel Gibson, put it that way.”
While Gibson’s Viking yarn has fallen by the wayside, Kormákur’s version promises some of the crunching action beats that have hallmarked his peer’s historical epics. "My pitch was, in a way, to make a modern version of a Mel Gibson film,” Kormákur explains. "Authentic, big world, masculine.” The Kormákur version will, he stresses, be in English. “There's no such thing [as the Viking language]. You can do it in old Icelandic or old Norwegian, but if you try to have American actors speaking old Icelandic, it's going to sound really, really weird."
"My intention is to create a world you haven't seen,” he adds. "If you go into the British Museum, you'll see [Vikings] were not drunk rapists. They were actually really good at creating jewellery... the best boats of the era. I know that Hollywood doesn't go to a place like that unless it's forced, but it's fascinating to create that world.”
Everest, meanwhile, hits cinemas on September 18 with Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright and Sam Worthington in tow.
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