The Revenant: Book vs. Movie
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant (2015) draws on Michael Punke’s 2002 novel. Set on the American frontier, it follows Hugh Glass after a bear attack leaves him dependent on men who abandon him.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Michael Punke
- Year
- 2002
- Pages
- 272Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 9 hr 12 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Holter Graham
Hugh Glass survives a bear mauling only to find that the men left to watch over him have departed with his weapons and equipment. Injured and alone in the Missouri Territory, he must crawl toward help before he can pursue them. The prospect of confronting the men who abandoned him begins to matter as much as recovering from his wounds.
- Director
- Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Writer
- Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mark L. Smith
- Year
- 2015
- Runtime
- 2 hr 37 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter
- Genre
- biographical, Drama, survival, Thriller, Western
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
After a bear mauling, Hugh Glass can neither travel with his fellow trappers nor protect his son Hawk from John Fitzgerald. Left behind after Fitzgerald’s betrayal, he refuses to accept the death expected of him. His pursuit becomes a struggle to find food, shelter, and a route through the winter wilderness, where his injuries make even the distance to the next refuge a dangerous undertaking.
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