“Wings over Everest,” a new action adventure film from veteran producer Terence Chang and “Wolf Warrior 2” producer Lu Jianmin, is poised to join the burgeoning Chinese sub-genre of rescue movies. …
, Canada and Nepal, the movie tells the story of a rescue team that must go after a plane that was carrying important CIA documents that could prevent a terrorist incident, but which crashes in the Himalayas. The team has 72 hours to locate the files in a “death zone” nearly 30,000 feet above sea level with temperatures below -40 degrees Fahrenheit, and so high up that it’s unreachable even by rescue craft.
Fei spoke of his experience as a high-altitude mountaineer who has climbed Mont Blanc and Nepal’s Manaslu. He planned a massive 2,200 shots for the film, and apparently was shooting some 75 a day, his actors said. Chang’s involvement convinced Yakusho to join the project. “He’s a real veteran and very famous, and I think that it’s rare for different Asian countries to work together on a film, so I wanted to be a part of something that involved that kind of cooperation,” he said in Japanese through a translator.
“She knows her boyfriend is almost certainly gone — and that she will likely either die alongside him or bring only his body back. But this is why she keeps going out there,” Zhang explained. “The character really moved me. Even though she knows there’s no hope, she doesn’t give up.”
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