It looks like Jake is going to do Everest. In a recent interview with GQ.comUK Jake talked about the future project.
You're next working on Everest. Did your experience with Bear Grylls on Man vs Wild help you prepare?
With Everest, it's a story that I've always been fascinated with - even as just a metaphor. The idea of what is seemingly unattainable, but the reasons why people go there and try and as they say "conquer" a mountain. That is a fascinating turn of phrase. That somehow getting to the top of it is conquering it.
As someone who is quite active is that something you relate to? The adventurer's spirit?
I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way. But where I find myself getting caught up is where that spirit doesn't meet discipline. What I loved about the process of researching Everest is just what a science it all is. You can believe in the sense of adventure, and you can create nostalgia based on some lofty idea of it, but ultimately to conquer that mountain requires great discipline - using your critical, analytical mind - as well as that spirit we all talk about.
Pre-production mentions have said that Everest will be filming in Iceland. If indeed it is Iceland and with Iceland being so close to the Arctic circle - it is doubtful that the movie will film in 2013 - with only 5 hours of sunlight available a day by the end of November. So if the Iceman cometh won't be until Spring 2014.
