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Actor Christian Bale is in talks with Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur to star in his upcoming film Everest.
Christian Bale. Source: Wikipedia.
Baltasar is reportedly also in talks with Universal and Working Title on producing the film, according to thewrap.com.
The film tells the story of the events in 1996 when eight people died on Everest while attempting to reach the summit and is based on Jon Krakauer’s book Into Thin Air.
Filming is expected to take place in Nepal and Vatnajökull glacier, Southeast Iceland. Baltasar told ruv.is that he hopes to make the film, which is expected to cost USD 60-70 million (ISK 7.7-9 billion, EUR 44.8-52.3 million), in 3D.
Bale has starred in such films as The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Batman Begins (2005) and The Fighter (2010), for which he won Academy and Golden Globe awards.
Baltasar won 11 Icelandic Film and Television Awards (Eddas) on Saturday for his latest film The Deep (Djúpið).
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Four Icelandic contestants will participate in this year’s World Skills International, the world cup for industrial- and vocational subjects. The competition is held every other year.
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This year’s free English-language travel guide Around Iceland has been released, the 38th year in a row. The guide is also published in Icelandic and German and is distributed in 100,000 copies to the country’s most frequented tourist destinations.
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An international group of divers recently traveled to Þingvellir National Park in Southwest Iceland to explore this unique diving destination. A Polish guide, Michail Zinieuricz, who works for the DIVE.is, led the team of North Americans and a French couple.
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Iceland’s northernmost island is no longer one island. In a recent surveillance excursion to the Kolbeinsey, the Icelandic Coast Guard discovered that the island is now divided in two.
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The 2013 June-July issue of Iceland Review is out. Themed ‘We Are Young’ the magazine celebrates the arrival of summer by interviewing young energetic Icelanders who excel in art, sports, business and politics—and Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, the youngest PM in the republic’s history and the world’s youngest ruling state leader. Click here to take a look at a selection of the current issue and here to subscribe to the magazine.
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The road to Höfn, a 1,690-person harbor town by the fjord Hornafjörður, is lined with reindeer. Whole herds of the wild horned animals rest peacefully on withered pastures, grace next to sheep and horses and bounce along the road. Soon, Vatnajökull, Europe’s largest glacier and the region’s biggest attraction, comes into view. Looming over Höfn, its outlet glaciers flow down from the mountains on which the bright white icecap rests.
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Sin Fang will celebrate the release of his third album with a release concert in Iðnó on June 12. Flowers was released in February by Morr Music and has been well received by music enthusiasts and critics alike. The concert will be supported by Vök, this year’s winners of the Icelandic Music Experiments.
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