Into the Wild (film)

Into the Wild
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySean Penn
Screenplay bySean Penn
Based onInto the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
Produced by
  • Sean Penn
  • Art Linson
  • Bill Pohlad
Starring
CinematographyEric Gautier
Edited byJay Cassidy
Music by
Production
companies
  • Paramount Vantage[1]
  • River Road Entertainment[1]
  • Square One C.I.H.[1]
  • Linson Film[1]
Distributed byParamount Vantage[1]
Release date
  • September 21, 2007 (2007-09-21)
Running time
148 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$20 million[3]
Box office$56.8 million[3]

Into the Wild is a 2007 American biographical adventure drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Sean Penn. It is an adaptation of the 1996 non-fiction book of the same name written by Jon Krakauer and tells the story of Christopher McCandless ("Alexander Supertramp"), a man who hiked across North America into the Alaskan wilderness in the early 1990s. The film stars Emile Hirsch as McCandless, Hal Holbrook, and Catherine Keener.

The film premiered during the 2007 Rome Film Fest and opened outside Fairbanks, Alaska, on September 21, 2007.

  1. ^ a b c d e "Into the Wild". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Archived from the original on October 6, 2016. Retrieved June 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "View Title". classification.gov.au. Archived from the original on 2015-02-14. Retrieved 2015-02-13.
  3. ^ a b "Into the Wild (2007)". The-Numbers.com. Nash Information Services. Archived from the original on 2018-10-25. Retrieved 2018-10-25.