US release?
Will there be an English-language version of Kon Tiki? If so, will it be released in the US, and when?
shareIt certainly will be released, and most was spoken in English!
It's just had it's first press viewing at the Haugesund International Film Festival today, August 18th 2012, and has it's festival premiere later tonight. The rumour is that the critics loved it.
It's also shown at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 17th to 30th of August, in the programme Special Presentation, which is for films will great International appeal. (Not schedules showings yet.)
This is the first places the film will be sold for distribution, and as Toronto is one of the worlds most important buying festivals; it most certainly will sell to the North American continent already then.
This expedition was world reknown just after the 2nd world war (1947), and the documentary they made of the trip themselves won Oscar the in 1950. The expedition leader, Thor Heyerdahl, which also directed the documentary, was famouus for several expeditions proving small boats could travel from continent to continent much earlier than we one had expected, and show why human dna has traveled across the big seas.
The directors are also known as Hollywood directors, and their last film "Max Manus" was acclaimed and was distributed in the U.S., so this film is very much enticipated.