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The film, based on the 2011 novel of the same
name by Charles Martin, follows two strangers stranded on a
mountain after a spectacular plane crash. It was filmed in the
Canadian Rockies.
Winslet plays a photo journalist who is rushing to her wedding,
while Elba is a neurosurgeon on route to a patient who needs
emergency surgery.
They charter a plane after their commercial flight is canceled,
but after the pilot suffers a stroke mid-flight, they end up
trying to survive in harsh mountain weather, making a perilous
trek down thousands of feet.
"We literally wouldn't know what conditions we'd be confronted
with every day and we just had to cope and get on. You can't not
do it because there's a blizzard," said Winslet.
If anything, Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad saw an
opportunity with the inclement weather.
"Hany would say, 'Get out there! It's amazing! The blizzard is
incredible!'" Winslet said at the film's red carpet premiere at
the Toronto film festival on Sunday.
"We made this film in Canada, with Canadians. We did not want to
go home," Winslet said of how much she enjoyed making the film.
Abu-Assad, who previously directed Oscar-nominated films "Omar"
and "Paradise Now", told audiences there were no green screen
special effects other than the crash.
"The Mountain Between Us" is Abu-Assad's first big English
language film and starts its movie theatre roll-out in October.
(Reporting by Reuters Television, writing by Solarina Ho;
Editing by Andrew Hay)
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