Today's adrenaline jolt comes courtesy of Joseph Gordon-Levitt in 'The Walk'

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Don't try this at home. If you're afraid of heights, maybe don't even watch this at home.

In the first teaser trailer for The Walk, which is essentially a live-action version of the Oscar-winning documentary Man on Wire, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is Philippe Petit, the French high-wire artist who traversed the World Trade Center towers in 1974. And he does the unthinkable.

Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Flight) directed The Walk for Sony — a bit of a puzzling choice, since Man on Wire, which won the Academy Award for best documentary in 2009, already plays very much like a taut heist-thriller and contains re-enactment elements Read more...