The Revenant: What To Expect Based On The Epic Trailer

If Birdman was Inarritu's talkiest film ever, and the one most reliant on a script (it had four screenwriters, in comparison to The Revenant's two), it looks like The Revenant will take another route entirely and aim to be largely dialogue-free. The trailer relies not on words, but imagery to tell the story - where the images are retina-searingly strong, the scant lines of dialogue are muffled or inaudible.

The teaser implies The Revenant will have a kindred spirit in JC Chandor's All Is Lost, another survival movie about one man out of his depth and facing the elements alone. Or, perhaps more accurately, 2013's Gravity, directed by Inarritu's buddy Alfonso Cuaron and shot by The Revenant DoP Emmanuel Lubezki.

Hugh Glass's isn't a story that leaves much room for dialogue, though it would appear Inarritu has beefed up his tale to include segments involving Glass in his fur trading days and make a more significant role of Tom Hardy's John Fitzgerald. Still, with nobody for DiCaprio to bounce off, the portion of the film regarding Glass's cross-country journey will likely remain largely silent.