“A local agent applied for permission on behalf of Baltasar Kormakur to shoot ‘Everest’ and received the permission three days ago,” communications ministry official Umakant Parajuli told AFP. Parajuli said the team was permitted to shoot in the Himalayan nation for two weeks. He declined to comment on whether the shoot would include a stint on the famed peak this month, when temperatures are expected to be at their lowest level annually.
बिश्वको सर्वोच्च शिखर सगरमाथासम्बन्धी सिनेमा निर्माणका लागि हलिउड स्टारहरु काठमाण्डौ आइपुगेका छन् ।
हलिउड स्टारहरु जोस ब्रोलिन, ज्यासन कलार्क, जोन हेक्स, मार्टिन हेडर्सन यतिबेला काठमाण्डौ छन् । उनीहरु निर्माणाधीन चलचित्र ‘एभरेष्ट’ को सुटिङका लागि बिहीवार लुक्ला प्रस्थान गर्दैछन् ।
‘एभरेष्ट’ सन् १९९६ मा सगरमाथा आरोहणका क्रममा भएको दुखद् दुर्घटनाका बिषयमा केन्द्रीत रहेको बताइएको छ । जेक ग्लेनहलले यसमा आरोहण टोली नेताको भूमिका निभाउने छन जसले आरोहणका क्रममा ज्यान गुमाएका थिए ।
निर्माण टोलीले सोमबार मात्र सूचना तथा संचार मन्त्रालयमार्फत् सुटिङका लागि अनुमति लिएको थियो । दुई साताका लागि अनुमति पाएका उनीहरुले सगरमाथा आधार शिविरमा सुटिङ गर्नेछन् ।
KATHMANDU: Hollywood actors Jake Gyllenhaal and Josh Brolin have arrived in Nepal to shoot a new film based on the Everest bestseller “Into Thin Air”, a government official said Monday.
Brolin and Gyllenhaal, who are staying at a five-star hotel in Kathmandu, will play the lead roles in the film, named “Everest”, which will focus on an ill-fated attempt to scale the world’s tallest mountain in 1996. Iceland’s Baltasar Kormakur is directing the film, which tells the story of how eight climbers lost their lives when a rogue storm struck the mountain.
“A local agent applied for permission on behalf of Baltasar Kormakur to shoot ‘Everest’ and received the permission three days ago,” communications ministry official Umakant Parajuli told AFP. Parajuli said the team was permitted to shoot in the Himalayan nation for two weeks. He declined to comment on whether the shoot would include a stint on the famed peak this month, when temperatures are expected to be at their lowest level annually.
British newspaper The Guardian reported last week that Gyllenhaal would play Scott Fisher, a US expedition leader who died in the disaster while Brolin will play Beck Weathers, an American doctor who survived the storm. US mountaineering journalist Jon Krakauer, who accompanied the Everest climbers on their ascent, wrote about the tragedy in his 1997 bestseller.
Hundreds of climbers scale the peak every spring, while thousands more go trekking from Lukla, the nearest airport, to Everest base camp. Last year, a brawl between three European climbers and Nepalese guides on Everest hit global headlines, raising concerns that the mountain had become too crowded in recent years with climbers eager to set new records.
Meanwhile, a US policeman on his way to Mount Everest was arrested in Nepal for possessing bullets which he claimed to have inadvertently carried in his hand luggage from Washington, police said Monday. Leonard John David Rubin, 39, was arrested on Saturday at Kathmandu Airport while checking in for an internal flight to Lukla near Everest base camp, police official Abhi Kafle told AFP. “He was carrying seven rounds of bullets and a magazine,” Kafle said.
Kafle said Rubin told officials he had forgotten to remove the items from his hand luggage before departing from the United States to Nepal on a visit to offer safety training to Sherpa guides. “He told us that he didn’t check the side pockets of his black bag. And that’s how he carried the bullets and the magazine,” Kafle said. Rubin, part of a US team visiting Nepal to conduct training, arrived in Kathmandu Thursday, is currently in police custody near the airport.
Kafle said authorities were preparing to charge him with violating the Public Offence Act, which carries a maximum penalty of two years in jail and a 10,000 rupee ($101) fine. An American embassy spokesman told AFP that Rubin was a US citizen, but declined further comment.
