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Titolo originale: The Lost City of Z
Regia: James Gray |
Anno: 2017
Origine: United Kingdom | United States of America |
Generi: Avventura Dramma Storia
Tag: based on novel or book | snake | world war i | river | expedition | lost civilisation | tribe | biography | amazon rainforest | colonel | jungle | south america | explorer | journey | 1920s | mysterious lands | mischievous | admiring |
Cast: Charlie Hunnam | Robert Pattinson | Sienna Miller | Tom Holland | Angus Macfadyen | Edward Ashley | Clive Francis | Ian McDiarmid | Franco Nero | Matthew Sunderland | Johann Myers | Daniel Huttlestone | Harry Melling | Pedro Coello | Aleksandar Jovanović | Yelena Solovey | Bobby Smalldridge | Tom Mulheron | Nathaniel Bates Fisher | Murray Melvin | Michael Jenn | Michael Ford-FitzGerald | Frank Clem | Bethan Coomber | David Calder | Stacy Shane | Pat Mooney | Colin Carnegie | Anthony Boyle | Neil Bromley | Bill Hurst | Richard Croxford | Louise Parker | Jose Pereira | Gustavo Duque | Fernando Vigui | Nicholas Agnew | Robert Fawsitt | Patrick McBrearty | Gary Crossan | Niall Cusack | Nick Sampson | Ruairí Heading | David Coon |

Il militare Percy Fawcett nella Gran Bretagna dell'inizio del secolo scorso ha davanti a sé scarse possibilità di avanzare di grado. Accetta quindi la proposta della Royal Society di recarsi in Amazzonia, ai confini tra Brasile e Bolivia, per mappare un territorio sino a quel momento privo di definizioni cartografiche. Fawcett lascia la moglie per una missione che dovrebbe durare due anni. Rimane però così affascinato dalla foresta amazzonica da decidere di tornarvi alla ricerca di una città nascosta di cui è convinto di aver trovato significative tracce.

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Tom Holland had to wear a fake mustache for the movie as he said he was "a child" and couldn't grow [...] D
Filming included so many gunshots and big explosions that it scared local farmers, who complained to [...] D
Brad Pitt's Plan B production company and Paramount Pictures optioned David Grann's The Lost City of [...] D
Gal Gadot and Robert Pattinson both lost around 20-40 lb by only eating the minimum per day while fi [...] D
Principal photography began in August 2015, in the Northern Irish countryside. By October, Gray and [...] D
Around the 30-minute mark they show the expedition being attacked and one of the adventurers falls i [...] D
Although reports have never been officially confirmed, the publishers of the Indiana Jones children' [...] D
Holland went swimming with the largest predators in the Amazon basin - inadvertently. "I got in the [...] D
The role of Percy Fawcett was originally supposed to be played by Brad Pitt. However after discussio [...] D
James Gray worked closely with Sienna Miller to ensure Nina was given full dimension and her own arc [...] D
When it came to filming in the jungle, "It felt pretty sketchy at times," admits Pattinson. "There w [...] D
According to James Gray, the story is more about the characters than the adventure. Percy Fawcett's [...] D
In 2017, explorer John Hemming criticized the film for claiming that Fawcett was one of Britain's gr [...] D
Intent on capturing the reality faced by the actual explorers a century earlier, Gray committed to s [...] D
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a close friend of Percy Fawcett, modeled the character of Professor Challeng [...] D
Robert Pattinson sought out director James Gray to work with him after he saw Two Lovers (2008) for [...] D
The decision to shoot on 35 mm film cost the production an additional $750,000. D
Director James Gray wrote to Francis Ford Coppola, who directed Apocalypse Now (1979), asking for ad [...] D
While filming in the jungle, Hunnam remembers a particularly nerve-wracking encounter one Saturday n [...] D
James Gray cooked pasta for the cast and crew most nights while filming in the jungle. D
First feature length film for Ian McDiarmid since Star Wars: Episodio III - La vendetta dei Sith (20 [...] D
Harry Melling, Tom Holland, and Robert Pattinson acted together in the movie The Devil All the Time [...] D
Tom Holland broke his nose on his very last day of shooting by doing a salto backwards in between ta [...] D
The decision to shoot on 35mm may have been the film's saving grace, as the production team's comput [...] D
Robert Pattinson's performance in this film is reportedly what brought Matt Reeves to consider him i [...] D
To capture the dramatically varied settings of the Amazon rainforest, proper English life, and horri [...] D
Most of Pattinson's scenes took place in uncomfortable situations in the jungle, where he forged a c [...] D
Based on the best-selling non-fiction book written by The New Yorker staff writer David Grann, who f [...] D
If shooting on 35mm film made perfect sense aesthetically, it posed significant logistical challenge [...] D
According to director James Gray, the boat trip was believed to be eight weeks long, filled with vio [...] D