NEW YORK, June 4 (UPI) -- Director Robert Zemeckis' The Walk -- starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt -- is to have its world premiere in 3-D as the opening night selection of this fall's 53rd New York Film Festival, organizers announced Thursday.
The screen adaptation of Philippe Petit's memoir To Reach the Clouds casts Gordon-Levitt as Petit, the French high-wire artist who walked between Manhattan's Twin Towers in 1974.