Hey, it's Walter. Guess what.
I'm in Iceland.
Is it nice there?
Yeah, it is. It's really beautiful.
Hi.
Walter finally commits to going on a journey,
chasing this elusive photojournalist.
Sean.
JOHN GOLDWYN: So we go on a scout to Iceland.
And Ben discovers Iceland.
And he realizes that he is
in the landscape of Mitty's mind.
We came up with shooting Iceland for Greenland,
Iceland for Iceland,
and then Iceland for the Nepalese border in Afghanistan.
Iceland is an amazing place.
It just has a natural beauty and scope that you don't find any place else.
The topography is all different,
so you go up on a glacier, and you get to a glacier
and you feel like you're at the top of the world.
And it's just ice for miles and miles.
And then, huge cliffs and jagged peaks
and just amazing, stunning imagery
that, for a movie, it's just a great place to film.
I'm saying for me and all of the American people and the Walter Mitty crew,
we're really happy to be here in Iceland,
and we look forward to working with you guys.
Yeah!
(ALL APPLAUDING)
All right, guys. We're getting ready to shoot our first shot.
- Possibly a two-camera setup. - Thank you.
Hi. Hey. Do you guys speak English?
DO you guys speak English?
GOLDWYN: I think for Ben, the actor, being in a real environment
creates an energy in those scenes,
that I'm not sure that if he was in the comfort of a stage someplace,
those scenes would have.
STILLER: Every day we were going with the second unit,
and Erik Wilson, who's this great cinematographer,
he and Phil Neilson, who's our second unit director,
they'd be going out every day, shooting stuff,
either on their own or with a double for me,
or I would go and join them for a shot.
To have it, which will be the... This one.
Yeah, I think the lighting is nice. Yeah.
Particularly in the middle of the day with the background.
And we had it all planned out, so basically, we were always having a unit going.
So we could catch the sun when it would come out
and basically have enough chances to get all these shots,
which we needed in a short amount of time.
The biggest challenge there was the amount of time we had to shoot,
and the weather 'cause the weather changes so quickly.
And we got shut down for a couple of days by a Windstorm.
- Cut. - (BLEEP)
Where did you stop?
He's coming back, coming back.
Okay, we're on our way down now.
GOLDWYN: I saw Ben, in a way, fall in love with what this movie could be.
Because he's a connoisseur of photography.
And I think he saw in Iceland
an opportunity to do something photographicaliy very, very unique.
We were lucky enough to have everything that we needed
because I think we worked so hard to try to get it.
And that was just thanks to a really collaborative process,
so many people working hard to make it happen.