It’s an impressive debut for such a young filmmaker. His hand is in every aspect of the film, from writing to directing to producing to scoring to sound editing. “The Last Descent” is Isaac Halasima’s first full-length feature film - he had previously directed music videos for Imagine Dragons. “So we nodded and went on our way - ‘Tell your friends that you met the Bachelor,’ ” Hopson recalled with a laugh. It’s easy to imagine they’re actually LDS - and that they’re actually a real couple: On the flight to Utah for the film’s premiere, Hopson and Johnson were mistaken for the couple on ABC’s reality show “The Bachelor.” Johnson went with Emily to General Conference at Temple Square in Salt Lake City, and Hopson attended church with Emily. Hopson and Johnson don’t belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and they naturally became much more familiar with it during filming.
JOHN JONES NUTTY PUTTY CAVE MOVIE MOVIE
While “The Last Descent” doesn’t dive into the Mormon theology that the characters espouse, the movie is undoubtedly about faith generally, and doesn’t shy away from that. If I put myself in their position, with my family … it would be a very hard thing for me to discuss. I think for the project as a whole, without that on board, it wouldn’t have been as on point as it could’ve been. “And just the fact that they were open to spill the beans on all that was a real help for me. “It was so helpful, just from each of their perspectives, and they’re so different in how they feel about things,” Henneman said of the Jones family. The real-life Adam, however, decided not to work with the film crew, which made the Jones family’s involvement all the more crucial. Much of “The Last Descent” focuses on the kinship that builds between the two men in their brief time together. Henneman’s character, Adam, spends significant time with John in the cave. The moment that I started to imitate him is the moment I felt like I would be untruthful - because there just wasn’t enough information out there.” I wanted to try and capture what John made other people feel instead. “One thing I never tried to do was imitate John. “I had stories and stories and stories,” Hopson continued. Emily also kept a blog before and after John’s death, and the team pulled from those stories as well. However, the Jones family shared what they could about John, which were stories. “I honestly didn’t want to push the family to give me information, to revisit something that they didn’t want to volunteer,” Hopson said. Hopson, Johnson and Henneman wanted to portray their characters accurately, but not at the expense of the individuals and families affected by John’s death. To have those hopes dashed - to be put on that kind of emotional rollercoaster - makes the wounds that much deeper. For a while, the family and rescue crews thought they had a good chance of getting John out. Part of that has been understanding the nature of the grief this tragedy triggered. Part of preparation for the film was getting to know John’s family, as well as Emily. “And unfortunately, destiny meets us all. “I don’t think we go into approaching a story thinking, ‘This is a sad story.’ We look at it as a whole - and what it is is the relationship of John and Emily,” Johnson explained. Viewers will be inclined to gain affinity for John and his young family while simultaneously tempering the hope that comes with such affinity. We sat down with three of the film’s actors - Chadwick Hopson, who plays John Alexis Johnson, who plays Emily and Landon Henneman, who plays Adam, a member of the rescue crew - to discuss “The Last Descent,” and what it was like to tackle such a harrowing story.Īs one might imagine, the movie is profoundly sad - most who see the movie already know the outcome beforehand. That story came to the big screen this weekend in “The Last Descent,” a new film by local filmmaker Isaac Halasima that’s playing in theaters across Utah. Emily was also pregnant with their second child. John died down there, leaving behind a wife, Emily, and a young daughter.
While rescue crews were able to communicate with John and provide him with water, they couldn’t extricate him. During his descent down the cave, Jones got stuck in a small crevice more than 100 feet below ground level. The fate of John Jones is among the more memorably tragic ones to come out of Utah County.įor those unfamiliar: Jones was visiting his family in Utah in 2009 when he went for a hike in Nutty Putty Cave, west of Utah Lake.
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