Hollywood film, The Walk, hits cinema

A tight rope drama is playing out in a Hollywood film, The Walk, which hit the cinema across the nation on Friday.

Based on French high wire artist, Philippe Petit’s memoirs, To Reach the Clouds, the story centres on his dramatic walk of a tight rope between the world Trade Centre’s Twin Towers on August 7, 1974.

Petit’s memoir had inspired the 2008 Oscar-wining documentary, Man on Wire.

Directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Christopher Browne and Zemeckis, The Walk narrates how young and ambitious Petit, alongside his gang of accomplices achieved the impossible and overcame daunting physical obstacles, betrayals, countless close calls and overwhelming odds to beat the system and execute their made plan of illegal wire walk in the immense void between the World Trade Centre Towers.

Released by TriStar Pictures in America in regular 2D and 3D, it is distributed in Nigeria by Silverbird Film Distribution.