Heart of the Beast | Filming in the Wild Featurette (2026 Movie) - Brad Pitt

The wilderness is certainly a character in this movie. We shot in some of the most beautiful countryside you've ever seen. It's staggering. Getting up there in these glaciers, getting up in the mountains, it was incredibly challenging, but it gave us access to areas that had never been filmed in before. Nature is a canvas, and letting nature speak for itself, and then using that as an arena for a story, there's just something very special about that. I grew up in the Ozarks. I spent a lot of time outside shooting in this deep, enchanted forest with rock formations and rivers. I'm very at home, even at peace. When you're surrounded by mountains coming up on all sides, it just has that expansive feeling of being swallowed by nature. Being in those environments was so physically demanding. Whatever the weather was, we were filming. This crew was impressive, hauling out massive amounts of gear through ravines and over hills. Mountains, the trees, the river, the water, all became a singular character. It's primal. It has its own voice. Coming through these experiences, we all walked away going, we'll never get to do that again, that was really special. Cody, what do you say we go find some trouble?