I wasn’t expecting the film to be very historically accurate – after all, it’s based on a book which is itself based on real events – but the expedition is so famous that it seemed ridiculous to airbrush Raleigh out of history like that. I was surprised and disappointed that Raleigh Rimell, Jack’s friend and the third member of the notorious 1925 expedition, was deleted from the story. I can’t help picturing Brad Pitt in the main role, as he was to be originally (he remained an executive producer). I think they are all excellent performances. I suppose this was a sensible move, in order to focus the story, but it could have been more dynamic by alternating between Fawcett’s time and the present day investigations of the author.Īdventurer and military man, Percy Fawcett, is played by Charlie Hunnam, with Robert Pattinson as fellow explorer Henry Costin, Sienna Miller as Fawcett’s wife Nina and Tom Holland as son Jack. The film is based on one element of the book, the career of Percy Fawcett. David Grann’s 2009 book was a gripping real-life adventure story.
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