Sean Penn has molded one of the best movies of a bustling fall out of Jon Krakauer's best-selling Into the Wild. Krakauer told the true story of Chris McCandless, an honors grad from Emory ...

In “Into the Wild,” one minute disillusioned rich kid Christopher McCandless — played by a sullen Emile Hirsch — is scoffing at his parents’ offer of a new car as a graduation present ...

Into the Wild. SAN FRANCISCO -- Writer-director Sean Penn's film, based on Jon Krakauer's book, is an extravagantly ambitious, unfocused film that chronicles a tragic episode of open-road romance ...

It’s no wonder that the fate of Chris McCandless ate into the minds of writer Jon Krakauer and filmmaker Sean Penn. The subject of the book and now the film Into the Wild was an upper-middle ...

Jon Krakauer’s bestseller “Into the Wild” chronicled the real-life, way-off-grid adventures of Christopher McCandless, a middle-class college grad whose quest for “ultimate freedom ...