Tonight on TV: 5 years before Casino Royale, its director signed on to a pure action movie that was unfairly hated.

After his television debut in the 1980s, Martin Campbell rebooted the James Bond saga in 1995, directing GoldenEye with Pierce Brosnan as the famous British secret agent.

After this success, he devoted himself to the work of another franchise, the reboot of which he directed: The Mask of Zorro with Antonio Bandera, Anthony Hopkins and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

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In 2000, Martin Campbell took on a project on a different scale: Vertical Limit, an adventure film set on the slopes of K2, one of the highest mountains in the world.

Rich Elliot Vaughn (Bill Paxton) organizes an expedition there. After a devastating avalanche, he and his teammates Annie (Robin Tunney) and Tom (Nicholas Lea) find themselves trapped in a crevasse nearly 8,000 meters up.

With their location inaccessible by helicopter, Peter (Chris O’Donnell) must don crampons to go and rescue them, accompanied by some experienced climbers.

To achieve authenticity, the cast underwent a month of training under Barry Blanchard, who notably worked on Cliffhanger and K2. Thanks to the reconstruction of the snowy and hostile heights of the Himalayas in a studio in New Zealand, the camera is always moving and favors a depth of field that literally makes you dizzy.

The bravura productions and action scenes are worth watching (the film is also nominated in the category of best visual effects at BAFTA) and does the job in terms of adrenaline and suspense. Not to be missed is the scene of him leaping into the void, ice ax in each hand. Thrill is guaranteed!

on its production, vertical limit It grossed approximately $215 million at the worldwide box office, on a $75 million budget. In France, it has a total of 1.1 million admissions.

Six years later, Martin Campbell was asked once again to direct an episode of James Bond: Casino Royale, directed by Daniel Craig, which would be a huge critical and commercial success and would be considered one of the best installments in the franchise since. Cinematic debut.

vertical limit Martin Campbell with Chris O’Donnell, Robin Tunney, Bill Paxton…

from the age of 10

Tonight on 6 ter at 21:05.