EXCLUSIVE: After a two yr journey to realize again the rights to The Way, Emilio Estevez has organized with Fathom Events to re-release the movie nationwide on May 16 on about 800 screens or extra. The effort has led to not solely an opportunity to mud off a 12-year previous movie, but in addition to start out progress on a sequel.
The movie was scripted and directed by Estevez, partly impressed by the Jack Hitt ebook Off The Road: A Modern Day Walk Down the Pilgrim’s Route Into Spain. The movie starred Estevez’s dad, Martin Sheen, and the director performed the small function of a person who died whereas making the pilgrimage known as El Camino de Santiago, also referred to as The Way of Saint James. This is the place the Apostle James was buried. His dad takes over the trouble, his son’s ashes in tow, and is in regards to the individuals he meets alongside the way in which and the way the journey adjustments him. Deborah Kara Unger, James Nesbitt, and Yorick van Wageningen additionally starred.
“This has always been a very special movie to me,” Estevez stated whereas aboard a prepare with Sheen and the journey author Rick Steves, to movie a dialogue in regards to the which means of the film. “My father has done films like Badlands, Apocalypse Now and The West Wing, and this is right up there with those in terms of his performance,” Estevez advised Deadline. “I’ve at all times been so happy with his work. This has grown from a ardour undertaking into one thing else. We’ve been speaking about doing a observe up, a sequel of kinds. Martin says he’s up for it and I’ve cracked the code for what it might be. I’ll go to Spain to do promotion for this, but in addition testing the waters for what a sequel would possibly appear to be.
“This is a second bite at the apple, which is rare for a movie,” Estevez stated. “It’s a movie that is now more of its time than when we made it. Going through and coming out of Covid, people want to get out and travel again, see the world and be less isolated.”
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