New Trailer for The Revenant Revealed
Following on from yesterday’s reveal of new stills and July’s teaser comes a full trailer for Alejandro G. Iñárritu's epic The Revenant.
Looking like a full-blooded revenge western, the film – featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy and Grace Dove Syme – is adapted by Mark L. Smith from Michael Punke’s novel of the same name and follows an ill-fated fur trapping expedition to the frozen expanse of 1820s South Dakota. Hunter Hugh Glass (DiCaprio) is mauled by a bear in the harsh climate, and his companions leave him for dead. To add insult to injury, several men (Hardy, Will Poulter and Domhnall Gleeson) are assigned to bury what everyone assumes is his dead body. But the greedy scavengers decide to rob him and leave him helpless instead. Glass recovers, and swears bloody revenge...
Unsurprisingly conditions have been harsh for both cast and crew, with some members revolting and leaving the project. Add to that tense environment Iñárritu's desire to keep things as real as possible – which means using only natural light to shoot the film and DiCaprio’s own quest for authenticity, which saw the actor chow down on raw bison liver.
“He had to eat the liver,” says Production Designer Jack Fisk, speaking to Yahoo. “I think he threw up afterward... he was so into it. It made me really appreciate the extent to which he’ll go to make things right.”
The Revenant will be out in the UK on January 15.
