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Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu (21 Grams, Babel, Biutiful) is set to direct The Revenant. The story apparently tells of Hugh Glass, an adventurer who travels West in 1822, employed by Captain Andrew Henry for profitable fur trapping. After being attacked by a bear and injured, he survives, but the terrain makes it impossible to be carried back. Henry Henry tries, however, he ends up hiring two mercenaries to watch over him and bury him.

Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu (21 Grams, Babel, Biutiful) is set to direct The Revenant. The story apparently tells of Hugh Glass, an adventurer who travels West in 1822, employed by Captain Andrew Henry for profitable fur trapping. After being attacked by a bear and injured, he survives, but the terrain makes it impossible to be carried back. Henry Henry tries, however, he ends up hiring two mercenaries to watch over him and bury him.

Director John Hillcoat hasn't had a lot of luck, lately. The Road (in my opinion, the most underrated film of last year) was given one of The Weinstein Company's half-dead releases. His follow-up, an adaptation of the novel The Wettest Land, has fallen through due to financing. But a man of Hillcoat's reputation doesn't lack for work, even if he can't always get financing, and Bloody Disgusting is reporting he's attached to direct The Revenant. Christian Bale is in talks to star, and Mark L. Smith penned the script.

The Revenant is based on Michael Punke's novel, which is itself based on the true story of Hugh Glass. A man of many adventures, Glass goes West in 1822 in the employ of Captain Andrew Henry to do some profitable fur trapping. Glass is attacked by a bear, and badly injured. Miraculously, he survives, but the terrain makes it impossible to carry him back.