Redford’s A Walk in the Woods will premiere at the festival he founded.
Robert Redford and Nick Nolte in A Walk in the Woods.
Frank Masi
PARK CITY, UTAH — The Sundance Film Festival kicked off on Thursday, and one of its stars is also its founder: Robert Redford.
Redford's new movie, A Walk in the Woods, an adaptation of Bill Bryson's nonfiction book about walking the Appalachian Trail, will be featured in the festival's Premieres section. At Sundance's first-day press conference with its programmers, John Cooper and Keri Putnam, during which Redford also takes questions and assesses the state of the festival, independent film, and whatever else he feels like discussing, Redford wanted to make it clear right away that he did not use his pull to get A Walk in the Woods into the festival.
"It is weird," said Redford. "Very weird."
He said that Cooper "went out of bounds," to program the movie.
A Walk in the Woods was directed by Ken Kwapis, and in addition to Redford also stars Nick Nolte, Emma Thompson, Mary Steenburgen, and Nick Offerman. It will be seeking distribution at the festival, as so many films will be.
After saying that he has had "sad" experiences with films that got "no distribution or poor distribution," he talked about how the bidding model needs to be a "topic," and include the filmmakers more.
Redford then reiterated that it's "weird" that A Walk in the Woods will premiere at Sundance.
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