Their only protection is each other and the hunter (Neeson) whose job it was to understand wolves and shoot them when they got too close to oil workers. The crash itself is scary, surreal and graphic, among the best ever filmed.
The film was about one man's journey from suicidal depression to finding the will to live. It was about Ottway finding the urge to fight for his life, and stay in the fight. Through an unlikely experience with strangers stranded in the wilderness with him and a pack of wolves, Ottway found his way back.
What happened to Liam Neeson at the end of The Grey?
No, he died. He was trapped in the den of the wolf pack, and fought the leader. The final post-credit shot is of Neeson and the wolf lying battered and bloody by one another's side.
Ottway survives along with John Diaz, Jerome Talget, Pete Henrick, Todd Flannery, Jackson Burke and Dwayne Hernandez and they set up in the plane wreckage. Hernandez is killed in the night by the wolves.
And what a crash it is. In an era when violent on-screen air wrecks are all too common (see United 93, Final Destination, and, of course, Lost), this one sets a new bar. Only eight men survive, and luckily for the film's bottom line, Neeson is one of them. Boy, does he know how to survive.
Anyone who's now seen “The Grey” knows that scene from the very end of the trailer comes at the very end of the film with no wolf fight actually shown, though Carnahan recently said during a Q & A at an early screening of the film at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica that while he never planned to use it, he did film a ...
While the grey wolves in real life are harmless and do not hunt humans, 'The Grey' takes some creative liberties with this fact in order to have a compelling film.
According to Liam Neeson's account, the temperatures were as low as -40 degrees Celsius (-40 degrees Fahrenheit) in Smithers, British Columbia, where the film was shot.
The wolves are symbols. Stand-ins for the real main character: death. Black and cunning, always shadowing, the wolves are always there, following the men from place to place, taking one, then another, then another. Each time a man meets a wolf, it means death has come for him.
Frank Grillo kind of started this conversation by recently using the hashtag #TheGrey2 on Instagram. When asked about it by Uproxx, they acknowledge that a sequel virtually is impossible, to which Grillo explained: Right. Not possible!
Though he briefly returned as a Force Ghost in Obi-Wan Kenobi opposite co-star Ewan McGregor and "enjoyed very much being with Ewan and George Lucas on The Phantom Menace," Neeson felt it was time to move on from that character on the live-action side.
The wolves start hunting and picking up the humans one by one. The story ends with John Ottway, the protagonist and the last person left after all his fellow workers have been killed, killing the Alpha wolf and lying on the ground awaiting his death.
To quote from an article about the making of this movie: "To get the cast of 'The Grey' in the mood for the wild, director Joe Carnahan had wolf stew prepared for them. The meat was made from real wolves.
Joe Carnahan has crafted a bone-chilling and relentless journey into the void. "The Grey" explores man's most frightening questions...if there's an afterlife or if "dead is dead"... our fear of heights, flights, drowning or dying alone. An unforgivingly brutal, brilliantly acted, beautifully shot motion picture.
After their plane crashes in Alaska, six oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step.
According to Liam Neeson's account, the temperatures were as low as -40 degrees Celsius (-40 degrees Fahrenheit) in Smithers, British Columbia, where the film was shot. The snowstorms/scenes were real prevailing weather conditions, and not a cinematic illusion produced with CGI (interview: Episode #20.70 (2012)).
Liam Neeson was born on June 7, 1952 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, UK, to Katherine (Brown), a cook, and Bernard Neeson, a school caretaker. Liam worked as a forklift operator for Guinness, truck driver, assistant architect and an amateur boxer.
Parents need to know that The Grey -- a wilderness survival movie about oil workers who live through a plane crash in the frozen wild and must avoid being devoured by wolves -- has very strong violence, including death, gore, and blood, plus wolf attacks and a scary plane crash sequence.
There are a lot of animals that will seek revenge if wronged, these include great apes, rhesus macaques, elephants, orcas, bottlenose dolphins and magpies.
Ian Mackenzie Jeffers is a director, producer, screenwriter, playwright, and novelist. His novel 'The Grey' was the basis for the Ridley Scott-produced film starring Liam Neeson.
In the film's final few scenes, Ana asks Christian to show her just how bad things can get in his playroom. After he obliges her by spanking her six times with a belt, she spends the night in tears, only to wake up and leave Christian.
Wolves rarely act aggressively toward people, but there have been instances in Alaska and Canada where wolves have attacked people. The first case of wild healthy wolves killing a human in modern North America occurred in Saskatchewan in 2005; a second person was killed in 2010 in Alaska.
They measure up to 6 feet in length, including tail, and about 30 inches in height at the shoulder. Female wolves weigh around 70 – 80 pounds, while males weigh around 95 – 100 pounds. Wolves have larger and blockier muzzles than coyotes, shorter and more rounded ears, and shorter and bushier tails.
