Peter Weir

Peter Weir is all set to direct The Way Back the fact based story of the escape of soldiers from a Siberian gulag in 1940. The shooting for the film will begin in March in Bulgaria. The highly selective Australian director last directed the 2003 film Master and Commander for Fox, and developed but dropped out of Shantaram, the Warner Bros project which was to star Johnny Depp.

Peter Weir wrote the script for The Way Back and based it on several sources, most notably the Slavomir Rawicz’s account of being captured by the Red Army in 1939 and his journey to freedom with other inmates. The group crossed the Siberian artic, the Gobi desert and the Himalayas, finally settling in Tibet and India.

The film will be financed by Spitfire Pictures through its Cyrte Investments backed holding company, HS Media. Weir will produce with Joni Levin, Duncan Henderson and Sinclair. Keith Clarke, John Ptak and East will be executive producers with Simon Oakes.

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