Apple lands rights to Everest Sherpa film ‘Tenzing,’ starring Tom Hiddleston and Willem Dafoe

In the run-up to this week’s Cannes market, Apple Original Films has landed worldwide rights to “Tenzing,” starring Tom Hiddleston and Willem Dafoe.

Andreas Wiseman for Deadline:
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Oscar-winning producer See-Saw Films (The King’s Speech) is producing Tenzing, about the inspirational life of Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and his summit of Mount Everest in 1953 alongside fellow outsider New Zealander Edmund Hillary.

A search is underway to cast the lead role of Tenzing Norgay who will star alongside BAFTA-nominated Tom Hiddleston (Loki) as Sir Edmund Hillary and four-time Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe (Poor Things) as the English expedition leader, Colonel John Hunt.

Tenzing comes from filmmaker Jennifer Peedom who has a close relationship with the Tenzing family and the Sherpa community following her acclaimed documentary, Sherpa.

The project was being touted to buyers as having a budget in the $25M range. We hear it skews more intriguing character piece than an action-packed Everest-type but there will be a number of climbing sequences.

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MacDailyNews Note: Tenzing Norgay was a Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer who in 1953 became, alongside Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand, the first to set foot on the summit of Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak (29,031.7 feet).
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