The Grey is an upcoming 2012 action thriller movie directed by Joe Carnahan as well as starring Liam Neeson. In ‘The Grey’, Liam Neeson leads an unruly selection of oil-rig roughnecks when their plane crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness. Battling mortal injuries along with merciless weather, the survivors have just one or two days to escape the icy elements – along with a vicious pack of rogue wolves around the hunt – before their time runs out. The film will become released on January 27, 2012.
Man vs. Wild is one solution to explain Open Road Films’ This Grey, although that’s a basic comparison. After a plane crashes from the pristine Alaskan wilderness, a group of survivors must battle the harsh elements and a pack of hungry gray wolves – some, to say the least, are luckier than other folks. I’d like to think I possess the will to survive such as Liam Neeson’s character despite the fact that I suspect I’d be a wolf chew toy in only moments. Watch the impressive trailer below to have a sense of what I’m referring to.
The Grey reunites overseer Joe Carnahan with makers Ridley Scott and Tony Scott and also actor Liam Neeson, who collaborated on the 2010 action film This A-Team. Filming began in Jan 2011 and ended inside March. Though set in Alaska, the film was chance in Smithers, British Columbia, Canada.
Early footage released via co-writer/director Joe Carnahan’s This Grey has included what seems destined for being an iconic image: that of a bearded Liam Neeson, gritting his teeth because he charges down a wolf, armed with nothing but broken minibar alcohol bottles taped to his fists.
A new full-length trailer for that Grey has been showcased, and like the teaser trailer, it focuses primarily upon painting the film being a high-octane, cinematic adrenaline rush, with Neeson’s character serving as the heart and soul of the “man vs. nature” storyline. Not surprisingly, this new preview also climaxes using the Neeson/wolf battle.
Carnahan is well-experienced in the art of directing violently visceral thrillers (see: Narc, Smokin’ Aces) and in addition has a talent for crafting bombastic-but-fun action collection pieces (see: The A-Team). In The Grey, he looks to placed both abilities to great use while delivering more of an understated, yet gritty and fascinating, cinematic thrill ride.
Even though the film’s “evil wolves” do (to date) come off as over-the-top, that seems to be greatly intentional; in a sense, Mother Nature as a complete is portrayed as a semi-metaphorical monster that’s determined to kill the primary characters, be it by the rocks storm, frozen rivers, or collapsing snow-covered clfs. So, tonally, The Grey seems quite consistent and balanced.
While the film’s solid includes pretty decent personalities like Grillo (Soldier), Dermot Mulroney (In relation to Schmidt), James Badge Dale (Disgrace), and Dallas Roberts (3: 10 to Yuma), it is Neeson who’s going to be clearly going to do the bulk of the heavy (extraordinary) work. Hence why there was everything early buzz about the movie being given a brief release in 2011, so that Neeson could be a contender in the continuing Oscars race.
