He Went into the Wild and Never Came Out
Chris McCandless went into the Alaskan wilderness and never came out. Chris was an ambitious young guy who insisted on going into the wilderness all on his own. Within a few months, he was found dead. And to this day, the circumstances surrounding his death are still unclear. If you’ve seen the movie, you would think it was a work of fiction. But it is very much a real story.
Source: newyorker.com
The biopic, directed by Sean Penn and starring Emile Hirsch as McCandless, is a story that was based on a book also called “Into the Wild,” a 1996 non-fiction novel written by Jon Krakauer. It basically expands on the 9,000-word article he wrote on Christopher McCandless called “Death of an Innocent.”