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The Revenant (2015) Movies, TV, Celebs, and more. Filming & Production. Showing all 21 items. Jump to: Filming Locations (20); Filming Dates (1). The Revenant had a limited release in the United States on December 25, 2015, including Los Angeles—making it eligible for the 88th Academy Awards—before being released nationwide on January 8, 2016. The film opened in Australia on January 7, 2016 and in the United Kingdom on January 15, 2016.

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Ithink we can all agree that making a movie is hard work. Throw a few bumps in the road and it can get hectic. That’s where having a flexible shooting schedule comes in handy.

Today we’re going to go over one of the most insane movie productions ever, The Revenant, and show you how a flexible shooting schedule can help you tame even the wildest production!

Alexandar Iñárritu’s The Revenant is the semi-biographical story of Hugh Glass, a 19th century frontiersman, who fights for his survival in the unorganized territories of the Northwest after being mauled by a bear and left for dead.

In order for Iñárritu to recreate the visceral landscapes and shed light on the dangers of the 19th century Pacific Northwest, the film was shot in twelve raw locations in three countries: Canada, the United States, and Argentina.

The filmmaking team also decided that for the purpose of seeming real the film was to be shot only in natural light adding to the production’s complexity.

This may seem like an overwhelming amount of travel, location scouting and aesthetic perfection, and it is. Indian penal code pdf.

However, skilled filmmakers are able to navigate intricate details, shifting schedules and changing locations via an important production tool: the shooting schedule.

A production shooting schedule is a plan for film and television production—created and managed by the assistant director, and details what shots and scenes are taking place on which day; and used to keep all elements of the production on track.

In the past, filmmakers created production schedules by cutting pieces of paper and tacking them onto a board. Not anymore.

Now, there is intricate software that makes it easier for filmmakers like Iñárritu, and his staff, to document and execute their vision in an organized and practical manner, such as film scheduling programs like StudioBinder.

StudioBinder’s features allow you to drag and drop scenes into a timeline to create a succinct shooting schedule, and even utilizes Gantt charts (as seen below) to help manage all elements of production.

Planning every last detail of your production is crucial to its success. And having the ability to make edits on the fly is just as important.

For example, imagine making these kind of shifts in a shooting location and having to re-create the entire shooting schedule in excel. When using professional shooting schedule software, changing an element is a drag-and-drop experience.

The best productions schedules are designed with the inevitability of change, and the ability to make those changes and alert the necessary stakeholders at a moment’s notice.

To understand how drastically a shooting schedule can change over the duration of a production, let’s take a closer look at The Revenant.

The Revenant’s ever-changing shooting schedule

When production started, cinematographer Emmanuel “Chivo” Lubezki decided that he only wanted to use natural light for every shot in the movie.

'We wanted to make a movie that was immersive and visceral..The idea of using natural light came because we wanted the audience to feel, I hope, that this stuff is really happening.” — Emmanuel Lubezki

Since the shooting took place on location, the team was were reliant on sun-kissed weather.

But..

On overcast days, the team had to use bounce cards, carefully placed lanterns, and campfires, to emulate natural light.

Continuity played a huge role here, and the team relied on shooting schedules to plan their days to match light exposure, or plan re-shoots based on the amount of sun in the shot.

An anonymous crew member told The Hollywood Reporter, 'We'd never shoot what we blocked.” Echoes another: 'Everything was indecisive, whether it was this particular actor for this particular role, this costume, this makeup.'

Inarritu punched back:

'That's part of the process. … It's about incredible precision. … It's not easy. You have to be sculpting, sculpting, sculpting until you have it.'

— Alejandro Iñárritu

Arduous demands on production

Lubezki originally wanted to shoot The Revenant on film, but the low light required they use the Arri Alexa 65 digital camera. Lubezki also selected lenses from 12mm to 21mm to make sure he was able to take in the maximum amount of light in each shot.

This was all incredibly intricate and required careful plotting and a detailed shooting schedule.

And if this was not complicated enough, the team went through another potentially disastrous change when the production began: the weather.

How the weather altered The Revenant’s production schedule

In order to show what the character is up against, director Iñárritu wanted to shoot in snowy conditions.

Snow is a crucial element to the story and Hugh Glass’ journey through the barren wilderness. The crew began shooting in Alberta. All of the location intel indicated that it should be covered in constant snow.

Instead, it was unusually warm.

And deep into the shoot, and the snow started melting!

Still, temperatures as the sun set would cascade to around negative forty degrees, fahrenheit.

That’s ungodly. I would rather be eaten by a bear.

The Revenant movie's CGI bear.

So only a few days after the crew started in Calgary, they had to shift back to more rural, parts of Alberta — entering into the Canadian badlands.

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The crew then traveled from Montana to Argentina, where they finally found the conditions that they needed. The Revenants’ shifting locations due to an unexpected weather conditions is the perfect example of why a shooting schedule needs to be adaptable and flexible.

But they couldn’t find enough snow there. So they went to Kootenai Falls, Montana.

Montana was great for a time, but the weather lightened there too. The entire crew feared they’d never find the snow they needed in North America. And they were right.

They finally wound up in Argentina, where they had consistent snowfall because they were only 700 miles away from Antarctica.

While shooting The Revenant, the team pushed the schedule and budget to the brink. Even the executives on the movie were concerned about the pressure put on the film’s budget:

'We had weather challenges..This was a tough movie. We always knew it was a tough movie. And the movie's great.'

— Brad Weston, CEO of New Regency

DiCaprio’s commitment to a changing shooting schedule

Aside from the budget, the filming was taking its toll on the lead actor.

The Revenant posed a new challenge for Leonardo DiCaprio as an actor. Not only was he required to act with minimal dialogue, but his body was put under immense physical torture.

Dicaprio recalls having to eat actual liver on set when the prop liver wasn’t bleeding enough:

'It wasn’t bleeding the right way when I was biting into it..Alejandro threw me a real one. The bad part is the membrane around it. It’s like a balloon. When you bite into it, it bursts in your mouth. I got flu quite a few times.'

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Was it worth it? We think so. As do many fans of the film.

The Revenant went on to be nominated for twelve Academy Awards, winning three.

Leonardo DiCaprio finally won his Best Actor Oscar.

Alejandro Inarritu won for Best Director.

And Emmanuel Lubezki won for Best Cinematography.

Rumors have said The Revenant’s original budget was supposed to be around 60 million dollars. Then it was adjusted to 95 million dollars. But with all the moves and setbacks, the film wound up costing north of 135 million dollars!

​It was expensive and a huge burden for the production and studio.

The Revenant opened on Christmas Day, 2015, and stayed in theaters until the end of May 2016.

It made back all its inflated budget and then some.

Total Lifetime Grosses of The Revenant movie..

DOMESTIC: $183,637,894

FORIEGN: $349,312,609

WORLDWIDE: $532,950,503

Up Next: Back to the Future and The Script Breakdown

We learned a lot about production today. If you’re starting to plan production on a film or television show, the shooting schedule feature in StudioBinder can help. We also provide a free shooting schedule template that will help keep all shoot days organized.

Like, what if you’re making one of the greatest films of all time and need to replace your lead actor after shooting act one?

Come with us as we dissect the story of Back to the Future, and find out how a script breakdown helped the crew turn an average story into an iconic film.

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Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Entertainment grade: B–
History grade: C–

This article contains spoilers.

Hugh Glass was a frontiersman working in the upper Missouri river area in the early years of the 19th century. On a fur trapping expedition in 1823, he was attacked and mauled by a grizzly bear.

Violence

Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) is one of a group of men finishing up a fur trapping expedition in the wilderness. They are attacked by Ree (Arikara) warriors. Whoosh! Someone gets impaled on a spear. Bang! Someone gets shot off his horse. Crack! Someone’s bones shatter. There’s an unflinching close-up of an arrow thwacking into a face, a gun butt bashing into a face, a flying kick to a face. A horse gets shot in the face. It’s exceptionally well choreographed and filmed.

The Revenant review – gut-churningly brutal, beautiful storytelling

This scene is based on a real-life incident: William H Ashley and Andrew Henry (the latter played by Domhnall Gleeson in the film) set up the Rocky Mountain Fur Company in 1822. In June 1823, Ashley’s band of around 70 men was attacked by Arikara warriors – they estimated around 600, though in the film it’s more like a dozen. Various accounts suggest that between 12 and 18 of Ashley’s men were killed.

Characters

In the film, 10 men get away. Among them are Captain Henry, Glass, Glass’s son Hawk (Forrest Goodluck) and trappers John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy) and Jim Bridger (Will Poulter). They have a conversation, but it’s all so extravagantly mumbled that it’s hard to work out what’s going on. Fitzgerald is fighty and racist, so he’s the baddie. Glass is the goodie, because he loves his son (who is half-Pawnee) in a gruff, manly way that involves telling him off a lot. The backstory about Glass’s love for a Pawnee woman is fiction. It has been suggested the real Glass had such a relationship, but there’s no firm evidence – and no evidence that he had any children.

Wildlife

As the men make their way through a forest, Glass happens upon two bear cubs and their angry mama. If you felt wan after the face-smashing scene at the start, reach for the smelling salts. Chomp! Growl! Shake! The bear sniffs him to see if he’s dead, then jumps up and down on his back. Splinter! Howl! Slash! Glass shoots the bear. That really gets on its wick. It tries to rip his throat out. He stabs it in the neck. It flops on him and dies heavily, squishing him like a punctured bouncy castle full of blood.

The cinema audience is by this point laughing, half in horror and half because the scene goes on for so long that it becomes comical. Anyway, while historians are not certain of the precise details, the real Glass did get into a fight with a real bear, some time in August 1823.

Murder

The men find Glass in a rum old state. Captain Henry pays Fitzgerald, Bridger and Hawk to stay behind until it is time for Glass’s inevitable burial. When the captain leaves, Fitzgerald tries to bump Glass off. Hawk interrupts, so Fitzgerald bumps him off instead. This didn’t happen in real life, because Hawk didn’t exist. In the film, the ailing Glass sees Fitzgerald kill his son, giving him an extra motivation to stay alive and seek revenge. When Fitzgerald persuades Bridger to bury Glass alive and abandon him, you know Glass isn’t going to go quietly.

Survival

The real Glass survived his abandonment and dragged his battered body over hundreds of miles of terrain in pursuit of the men who left him for dead. Though he could read and write, Glass never set his story down in his own hand. It was first published by another writer in The Port Folio, a Philadelphia journal, in 1825. It may well have been embroidered then. It has been embroidered many times since.

Hardship

The film has invented some extra obstacles for Glass: it is snowing throughout, even though in real life his trek took place between August and October; the Arikara track him and chase him into a tree; he has to hollow out a dead horse to make himself a sleeping bag. It’s brilliantly filmed, but the characterisations and dialogue don’t match the sophistication of the visuals. Moreover, by the second lingering closeup of a horse’s eye or the sixth epic landscape shot with four-fifths sky and one-fifth land, even those sophisticated visuals begin to feel repetitive. As for the ending, it has been changed in one significant way: in real life, nobody got killed.

Verdict

The Revenant is an impressive film inspired by Glass’s real-life story, but lays it on a bit thick and ends up curiously unmoving. The whole thing is begging to be sped up into a two-minute YouTube video set to Benny Hill music.