New movie of James Marsh, Man on Wire, is set to release this summer. The movie is produced by Andrea Meditch, Nick Fraser and Lenny Crooks and stars Ardis Campbell as Annie, David Demato as Jean Louis, David Roland Frank as Alan (as David Frank), Aaron Haskell as Jean Francois and Paul McGill as Philippe Petit.

Man On Wire revolves around a young man named Philippe Petit, who steps out on a wire suspended between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Petit dances on this wire for an hour with no safety net before he gets arrested for what has become to be known as the “artistic crime of the century.”

Moviefone reports that James Marsh’s documentary, Man on Wire, revisits and recounts this chain of events some 34 years after they occurred.

On August 7, 1974, a 24-year-old French high-wire artist named Philippe Petit committed one of the most astonishing performance stunts of the late 20th century: he strung a thin cable in-between the two towers of the World Trade Center and not only walked across, from one building to another, but did a nerve-wracking series of knee-bends and acrobatic movements on the cable, some 1,350 feet above the ground, before turning himself in. This occurred to the consternation and chagrin of Port Authority policemen, who immediately arrested Petit for the act - prompting many to dub Petit’s stunt “the artistic crime of the century.”

According to cinematical, the plot of the Man on Wire is based on Petit’s book “To Reach the Clouds.”

But his obsession, ever since the plans were first announced in the late sixties, was to walk between the Twin Towers in New York. The movie is mainly concerned with that journey, his motley crew of Frenchmen, Americans, and an adventurous Aussie, and how the obsession affected his relationship with his girlfriend Annie and best friend Jean-Louis. All the principles involved in the planning and execution of the incident speak for the film.