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Grizzly Bear attack. Photo by The Revenant.
Grizzly Bear attack
From the trailer for the movie ‘The Revenant’.

The Revenant. Photo by The Revenant.
The Revenant
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio as mountain man Hugh Glass.

Grizzly bear attack. Photo by The Revenant.
Grizzly bear attack
From the trailer for the movie ‘The Revenant’.

On the river. Photo by The Revenant.
On the river
From the trailer for the movie ‘The Revenant’.
Inside ‘The Revenant’, new movie about 1823 grizzly bear mauling of mountain man Hugh Glass
New Hollywood movie has a Pinedale connection
by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online!
December 11, 2015

Editor’s note: Men’s Journal has published an article about the upcoming Hollywood movie "The Revenant" which will be released on January 8, 2016. The article mentions the Museum of the Mountain Man in Pinedale and historical consultant Clay Landry.

The movie is a fictionalized account inspired by the true story of a grizzly bear attack on Hugh Glass in 1823 in territory that is today South Dakota. The story is about the bear attack, Hugh Glass’s incredible survival, and his search for revenge on his compatriots who left him for dead in the wilderness.

The movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Hugh Glass and is directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, the Academy Award winning director of Birdman in 2015. The movie has 2016 Golden Globe nominations for Best Motion Picture, Best Actor (DiCaprio), and Best Director (Iñárritu). Production on the movie began in fall of 2014.

Filming took place in British Columbia and Alberta including Victoria, Fortress mountain, Calgary, Alberta, at Mammoth Studios in Burnaby, British Columbia, at Kootenai Falls in Libby, Montana, and in southern Argentina.

The Museum of the Mountain Man’s connection to the movie, besides the subject matter of Hugh Glass being a mountain man, is that Clay Landry, a historian who works with the Museum, was hired by the movie film crew as a consultant to help with the historical accuracy of the film. Landry is one of the leading material cultural experts of the Rocky Mountain fur trade. He has had five papers published in the Museum’s Rocky Mountain Fur Trade Journal. For the movie, Landry set up a sort of 1820s boot camp school for the actors in the mountains just west of Calgary, Alberta and taught them how to shoot flintlock rifles, throw tomahawks, skin beavers and look as accurate and natural as possible in the clothing and handling of the period weaponry.

Shooting for the movie took 12 months and was considerably challenged by cold temperatures and Iñárritu’s insistence that it be shot in all natural light, limiting their window of shooting time of good light to about 20 minutes a day.

Click on this link to read the article in Men’s Journal: Inside 'The Revenant': Leonardo DiCaprio on the Toughest Movie He's Ever Made By Mickey Rapkin, www.mensjournal.com, Jan 2016



Related Links
  • Revenant – Official Movie Trailer #1 - YouTube, 20th Century Fox
  • Revenant – Official Movie Trailer #2 - YouTube, 20th Century Fox
  • Revenant movie – Facebook page
  • The Revenant - Wikipedia
  • The Revenant’ explores a trapper’s tale - By Joy Ufford, Sublette Examiner, July 6, 2015
  • www.MMMuseum.com - Museum of the Mountain Man, Pinedale, Wyoming
  • Museum of the Mountain Man – Facebook page

  • Grizzly bear attack. Photo by The Revenant.
    Grizzly bear attack
    From the trailer for the movie ‘The Revenant’.

    Over the falls. Photo by The Revenant.
    Over the falls
    The waterfall scene was filled at Kootenai Falls on the Kootenai River near Libby, Montana, northwest Montana.

    The river. Photo by The Revenant.
    The river
    The waterfall scene was filled at Kootenai Falls on the Kootenai River near Libby, Montana, northwest Montana.

    Leonardo DiCaprio as Hugh Glass. Photo by The Revenant.
    Leonardo DiCaprio as Hugh Glass

    Director Alejandro Iñárritu. Photo by The Revenant.
    Director Alejandro Iñárritu

    Clay Landry at the Museum. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Clay Landry at the Museum
    At the Museum of the Mountain Man in Pinedale, Wyoming.

    Clay Landry talk at the Museum. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Clay Landry talk at the Museum
    Inside the Museum of the Mountain Man during Green River Rendezvous Days in July 2015.

    Clay Landry talk. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Clay Landry talk
    Clay Landry was a historical consultant on the Revenant film. Here he gives a talk at the Museum of the Mountain Man during Green River Rendezvous Days talkiing about saddles used by mountain men during the early 1800s Rocky Mountain fur trade.

    Clay Landry. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Clay Landry
    Clay Landry (L) receives recognition for having his article published in the Museum of the Mountain Man's Rocky Mountain Fur Trade Journal. RMFTJ Editor Jim Hardee, middle, and Museum of the Mountain Man Assistant Director Angie Thomas right.
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