Earlier in the year, six-time Oscar nominee Peter Weir's The Way Back, a true story of several escapees from the Soviet gulag who managed to walk from Siberia to India, was being looked at very closely as an Oscar contender, both in terms of its direction and its phenomenal cast, including, among others, Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Saiorse Ronan and Colin Farrell. Then it was announced that despite its prestige, the film would not be released until January, which is pretty much a bullet in the head for reasonable Oscar hopes. Then, earlier this week, it was announced that the film would have a one-week qualifying run at the end of December, and today a trailer has been released, which doesn't showcase too much of the acting but is heavy on the gorgeous-looking direction and cinematography. Given his longtime "always a bridesmaid" status at the Oscars, I've heard rumblings about this being Ed Harris' big break if the movie can make enough of a splash, so we'll see.
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