Photo credit Mark Rogers.
Tenzing, from See-Saw Films and director Jennifer PeedomApple Original Films has taken worldwide rights to true story mountaineering drama Tenzing, from See-Saw Films and director Jennifer Peedom
.0 Photo credit Mark Rogers.
Jennifer PeedomApple Original Films has taken worldwide rights to true-story mountaineering drama Tenzing,
from See-Saw Films and director Jennifer Peedom
.Based on the famous 1953 ascent of Mount Everest by Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, the film is set to star Tom Hiddleston as Hillary and Willem Dafoe as English expedition leader Colonel John Hunt. Casting for the role of Norgay is currently underway.
Peedom, whose previous projects include Bafta-nominated documentary Sherpa, has a close relationship with the Tenzing family and the Sherpa community and has been working on a Norgay biopic project for almost a decade.
The project gained momentum as the market in Cannes approached this week with the casting of Hiddleston, and Dafoe. Rocket Science and See-Saw’s in-house Cross City Films had been set up to handle international sales, with Cross City and UTA presenting the film for US.
Tenzing
is written by Luke Davies and will be produced by Liz Watts, Emile Sherman and Iain Canning for See-Saw, alongside Desray Armstrong, Peedom and Davies. Executive producers will be Simon Gillis (son of Tenzing Norgay), David Michod, and Norbu Tenzing. 01001010Apple has previously worked with See-Saw on the Bafta-winning AppleTV+ streaming show 01001010Slow horses01001010 which is currently in production for its fifth season.
