FILM 2324: THE WALK (2015)

TRIVIA: Philippe Petit personally trained Joseph Gordon-Levitt how to walk on a tightrope. When the training started, Petit predicted that Gordon-Levitt would need no more than eight days of training to be able to walk on a wire alone, which came true.

During the New York City premiere, the realism of the climax caused some viewers to actually throw up from vertigo, at least one reviewer claimed that. Director Robert Zemeckis responded, he didn't believe that report, but "(the goal) was to evoke the feeling of vertigo. We worked really hard to put the audience up on those towers and on the wire."

While attending Columbia University from 2000 to 2004, Joseph Gordon-Levitt studied French poetry and became an avid Francophile. He already spoke French before he began working on this movie.

IMAX VR has a virtual reality experience of this movie, where the guest actually tightropes across the twin towers.