Shekhar Kapur (“Elizabeth”, “Elizabeth: The Golden Age”) has signed on to direct a biopic of George Marllory, the English explorer and mountain climber.

Julia Roberts’ Red Om Films and Kevin Townsend’s Science + Fiction will be producing the project, which is about Mallory and his climbing partner, who disappeared in 1924 while climbing Mt. Everest. The two were 800 feet from the summit of Everest before the clouds closed in over them and they were never seen again. Townsend, Mark Skeet, and Matthew Faulk wrote the script for the yet-unnamed project.

Variety.com is stating that the film will take place in post-WW1 England, chronicling Mallory’s various attempts to scale Everest and how his obsession begins to slowly take over his life and ruin his marriage.

Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more on this project.

By Costa Koutsoutis (Source; Variety.com)