We took 15 years from optioning the rights to complete the film, so obviously we thought the story of this literate, young, vanished writer and poet was worth telling. The fact the film was a commercial failure in no way detracts from Ruess' story. You can read more about him in Into The Wild, by Jon Krakauer. Director Diane Orr, a native of Utah and longtime visitor to the desert in and around Capital Reef National Park, spent time in the small town of Escalante, UT., interviewing anyone she could find who was alive in 1934, to discover Ruess' fate. What she found has caused a major revision in the theories "Ruess buffs" propose as to what happened to him after he made his last camp.
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