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Summit Fever follows a group of friends, including Freddie Thorp, Michel Biel and Ryan Phillippe, as they begin their quest to climb the three most dangerous mountains in the Alps. Their friendship is tested as they search for a way out when a storm threatens their lives.

Thorp, who plays Michael, and director Julian Gilbey recently sat down for a conversation with uInterview founder Erik Meers to discuss how they made the climbing scenes in their new film.

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“I had this advantage that we weren’t going to shoot the entirety of the film in one fell swoop,” Gilbey said. “We were going to have a couple of scenes where we went out and filmed some climbing sections which were initially planned to be with doubles and stunt people. Freddie just came across as very physically able very early on when we had shot a...

Summit Fever follows a group of friends as they begin their quest to climb the three most dangerous mountains in the Alps. Their friendship is tested as they search for a way out when a storm threatens their lives.

Michel Biel, the French actor know for his role in Emily in Paris who plays Jp in the film, recently sat down with uInterview founder Erik Meers to discuss what it was like to shoot a movie that took place on a mountain.

“It was all on location,” the actor revealed. “We shot everything between Chamonix, Italy and Switzerland so we were actually climbing and going up on the glacier and doing almost every single stunt by ourselves. The only thing where we used green screen was we were, for example, climbing in Chamonix on a rock climbing wall and instead of being 1,000 meters up high, we would be maybe 30 meters...

With seemingly-authentic mountaineering sequences, this is a visually resplendent film about peak-scaling – just don’t look down at the plot

There’s an eerie closeup in Summit Fever of hair rising on the wrist of lead character Michael (Freddie Thorp), prior to a lightning strike. Julian Gilbey’s mountaineering drama isn’t just visually resplendent, it also has an impressive tactile familiarity with its milieu – placing its actors on real rock faces on the Eiger, Matterhorn and Mont Blanc mountains – that results in super-authentic climbing sequences (at least to this non-climber). Too bad then that it fumbles its dramatic handholds with a risible sub-Point Break storyline about peak-scaling addiction.

Thorp plays a Keanu-esque newbie who has quit his finance job to chase the Chamonix dream. Egged on by his loudmouth climbing partner Jp (Michel Biel), Michael starts to push his limits on the region’s slopes, starting with the terrifyingly sheer Dent du Géant.

"His sponsors pushed him too hard, man… Demanding bigger, bolder, scarier routes." Saban Films has revealed the first official trailer for Summit Fever, yet another new mountain climbing movie from genre filmmaker Julian Gilbey. This is debuting directly on VOD to watch in October if anyone wants to check it out. A young climber spends a hedonistic summer in Chamonix near Mont Blanc whilst attempting to climb the world's deadliest trio of mountains. This one stars Freddie Thorp, Michel Biel, Mathilde Warnier, Hannah New, Théo Christine, and Ryan Phillippe. "Vanity" is indeed a deadly thing to bring into the mountains, but ironically a series of vane actors are playing these roles, which is literally bringing vanity into these mountains. Everything about this looks and feels so cheesy, I prefer the more authentic mountain movies like 14 Peaks or The Eight Mountains instead. Might still be a fun watch with some pizza and beer.

Sentinelle Trailer — Julien Leclercq‘s Sentinelle (2020) movie trailer has been released by Netflix. The Sentinelle trailer stars Olga Kurylenko, Andrey Gorlenko, Blaise Afonso, Gabriel Almaer, Michel Biel, Julian De Backer, Guillaume Duhesme, Idris Ibragimov, Temerlan Idigov, Marilyn Lima, Antonia Malinova, Michel Nabokoff, Martin Swabey, and Carole Weyers. Crew Julien Leclercq and Matthieu [...]

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"He can't get away with it." Netflix has revealed an official trailer for an action movie from France titled Sentinelle, starring the French-Ukrainian actress Olga Kurylenko. This revenge thriller is about a female soldier who returns to discover that her sister was sexually assaulted. Transferred home after a traumatizing combat mission, a highly trained French soldier uses her lethal skills to hunt down the man who hurt her sister. Klara will do everything to find the attackers and avenge her sister. This merciless hunt will lead her in the footsteps of Yvan Kadnikov, the son of a powerful Russian oligarch of the French Riviera. The film's cast includes Andrey Gorlenko, Michel Biel, and Carole Weyers. This looks gnarly. They're making more and more of these intense revenge stories about women, some are good, some are not that good. This one seems cool - especially with Kurylenko kicking some ass (with a sniper rifle!