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- Caption: The Edge director, Lee Tamahori
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THE EDGE offers a unique interweaving of grand scale and hard-hitting action-adventure/man-against-nature elements with thought provoking examinations of the nature of trust, paranoia and character.
Nevertheless, the film originated with a very simple idea.
"David's screenplay started out with him saying, 'Well, it's going to be one guy trying to kill another guy,'" remembers producer Art Linson.
The concept quickly expanded from there. "Within a few days," continues Linson, "[Author, David] Mamet had them in the middle of the wilderness - with a wild Kodiak bear trying to kill them. And suddenly they had to find a way to connect in order to survive."
Although set in the mountains of Alaska, THE EDGE was filmed on location in the spectacular, rugged and dangerous Rocky Mountain range in Alberta.
While Sir Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin are noted for the intensive and extensive preparations for all of their respective motion picture projects, nothing matched the time they spent getting ready for the rigors and challenges of filming THE EDGE.
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Learning and then perfecting mountaineering skills, rappelling down jagged cliffs and getting acclimated to the area's icy waters were all in a day's work for the intrepid and determined stars during their prep period. And once production was underway, Hopkins, Baldwin and the rest of the cast and crew were subjected to some of Mother Nature's less inviting conditions, including blinding blizzards and icy rain storms.
Some locations were so steep and perilous to reach that helicopters had to be called in to sling equipment into the shooting location.
"I wanted that extreme ruggedness - the almost overwhelming sense that this is big dangerous country," comments director, Lee Tamahori. "The actors had no idea what they were in for...otherwise they might of backed off," Tamahori adds, laughing. "I did say that it wouldn't be a picnic, we weren't going to be shooting on the back of Big Bear. But the truth is, the only way for this to have credibility was to take it to a place that was really incredible and make it look like Anthony and Alec were at the end of the earth." - Actor/Actress/Director: Lee Tamahori
- Movie: The Edge ( photos )
- Id: 11218936
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