Robert Zemeckis will remake Man On Wire into 3D dramatic film
(Source: Deadline.com)
Oscar-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump) will be teaming with Tom Rothman's TriStar Productions, who are in the process of acquiring the rights to adapt To Reach the Clouds, the working title for the story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit, who christened the newly-built World Trade Center back on August 7, 1974 by tight-rope walking in between the two towers on a taut wire cable.
Petit's amazing story was brought to the screen in 2008 by filmmaker James Marsh and his Oscar-winning documentary Man on Wire. Zemeckis has co-written a script with Christopher Browne based on Petit's memoirs with plans to possibly make it his next film as a director.
The film will be produced by Zemeckis, Starkey and Rapke with Cherylanne Martin as line and exec. producer and ImageMovers’ Jackie Levine also involved.
