There are very few movies where going into the wild, untamed jungle turns out to a good thing, and Daniel Radcliffe is going to learn that the hard way in Greg Mclean‘s new film. The director of “Wolf Creek” is back with the simply titled “Jungle,” where the battle for survival serves up an abundance of thrills.
READ MORE: If You Give Daniel Radcliffe A Great Script, He’ll Play Harry Potter Again
Based on the memoir by Yossi Ghinsberg, the story follows a young man who goes on a journey into the rainforest, but trusts the wrong man to take him there, and winds up in a fight for his life. Here’s the official synopsis:
In the early 1980s, 22-year-old Israeli backpacker Yossi Ghinsberg and two friends – Swiss teacher Marcus Stamm and American photographer Kevin Gale – set off from the Bolivian city of La Paz on what was supposed to be the adventure of a lifetime. Leading the way into the uncharted Amazon was an Austrian expat named Karl Ruprechter, who had met the friends just days before and claimed to be familiar with the region. But their dream trip soon turned into a wilderness nightmare from which not all of the men returned.
Co-starring Alex Russell, Joel Jackson and Thomas Kretschmann, “Jungle” will make its World Premiere in August at the Melbourne International Film Festival.