Apple Original Films has acquired the global rights to “Tenzing,” an upcoming biopic that has Tom Hiddleston and Willem Dafoe attached to star.
The film, which will be directed by Jennifer Peedom from a script by Luke Davies, will tell the story Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa who famously joined Sir Edmund Hillary on his historic climb up Mount Everest in 1953, becoming the first men to reach the highest peak on Earth.
A casting search has begun to find the actor who will play Norgay alongside Hiddleston, who will play Hillary, and Dafoe, who will play Col. John Hunt, the head of the expedition up Everest.