The Revenant
A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 2h 36m
- Released
- 2015
- Country
- United States, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Argentina
Details
Release year: 2015
Storyline
A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.
Top credits
Leonardo DiCaprio — Hugh Glass
Tom Hardy — John Fitzgerald
Will Poulter — Bridger
Domhnall Gleeson — Captain Andrew Henry
Awards
3 wins & 9 nominations
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• Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu originally wanted a huge pile of human skulls to be showcased during one of the dream sequences. He intended for this to symbolize the future demise of the Native Americans in the film. Production designer Jack Fisk then showed Inarritu a photo from 1850 of men standing among a huge pile buffalo skulls and explained to him about the awful history of the Native Americans being deprived of their food source by the government. Inarritu decided to change the scene from human skulls to buffalo skulls in order to recreate the photo.
• Shot chronologically on an 80-day schedule that took place over a total principal photography time period of nine months. This unusually long production time was due to the cold weather conditions, the remoteness of the locations and director Alejandro G. Iñárritu's and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki's aesthetic plan to shoot only with natural light for maximum realism. Only a few shooting hours were available every day and had to be carefully planned in advance.
• Due to production being behind schedule, the snow melted during the location shoot in Canada before filming was complete. With summer rapidly approaching, there was no choice but to relocate the entire production to southern Argentina, where there were similar wintry conditions.
Box Office
Gross (Domestic): $184,247,394
Opening Weekend (Domestic): $474,560 (2015-12-27)
User reviews
8.0
Spellbinding contrasts of nature's beauty and brutality
One of the Best Movies I'll never watch twice
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Dolby Digital, Dolby Atmos, Dolby Surround 7.1, 12-Track Digital Sound, IMAX 6-Track, DTS, Sonics-DDP, SDDS
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
- Color
- Color
FAQ
- This movie is very similar to "The Man in the Wilderness" a 1971 movie. Are both movies based on the same "historical" event?
- Is this based on true events?
- Why is part of Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio ), John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy) and some of the other members of their team (including the captain) bald? On their sides partly of their head is bald/shaved. Also, why does John Fitzgerald scalp the captain's head after he killed him? Is this a routine? I believe they did the same with some of the other members.
