The director Peter Weir (Master and Commander, Truman Show) is back with the eagerly anticipated The Way Back and Fired Earth Music’s Man of Steel from Vulcano has been chosen to accompany the epic film trailer: the mysterious, atmospheric opening evolves into an exhilarating, all-powerful, heroic theme.

The Way Back stars an impressive cast of Ed Harris (Pollack, Gone Baby Gone), Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe, The Other Boleyn Girl), Saoirse Ronan (Atonement, The Lovely Bones), Mark Strong (Sherlock Holmes, Kick Ass) and Colin Farrell (In Bruges, Crazy Heart).

The film is an adaptation of the novel, The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz, a Polish army officer captured by the Russians in September 1939 and sent to a prison camp when the German and Russian armies were fighting over his country. There have been many challenges to the veracity of his claims, but Weir was hooked on the inspiring tale of human endeavor and survival. The film depicts the escape of the prisoners from a Siberian gulag, travelling 4,000 miles by foot across Siberia, Mongolia, the Gobi Desert, Tibet and the Himalayas before the surviving members of the party found refuge in India in 1941.

The film will get an Academy qualifying run from December and all of us at the West One Music Group cannot wait! It could finally be Peter Weir’s path towards another Oscar nomination and for a director with his pedigree it’s thoroughly deserved.