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Abercrombie & Kent has teamed up with Searchlight Pictures to launch Wild Horse Nine: An Easter Island Adventure, a seven-day Tailormade journey inspired by Martin McDonagh’s film of the same name.

The itinerary takes in filming locations and cultural sites across Chile and Easter Island. It is priced from US$16,295 (about AU$23,300) per person and can be personalised.

The film, which opened in cinemas on November 6, stars John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell as CIA agents sent from Santiago to Easter Island shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup.

The journey begins in Santiago with guided visits to La Moneda Palace, the Museum of Memory and Human Rights and Villa Grimaldi, a former detention centre now preserved as a memorial. Guests also get a backstage tour of the Municipal Theatre, which features in the film, and a dinner with a Chilean resident who lived through the coup.

Travellers then fly about 3,200km across the Pacific to Rapa Nui, home to nearly 1,000 moai. Filming locations include Rano Raraku, the volcanic quarry where hundreds of the statues were carved, Ahu Tongariki, with its 15 restored moai, and Anakena Beach. A visit to Hotel Iorana, also used in the film, is included.

Other experiences

• Sunset cocktails at Ahu Tahai
• Sunrise at Ahu Tongariki with a light breakfast
• A performance of ancestral chants, traditional dance and Polynesian storytelling
• Dinner in a Rapa Nui family home
• An expert-led evening on Polynesian celestial navigation.

“Great films have the power to transport audiences to extraordinary places, and we believe travel offers the opportunity to experience those stories in an entirely new way,” AKTG chief brand officer Peter Chipchase said.

The partnership “brings together two powerful forms of storytelling” and gives A&K a chance to introduce travellers to one of the most remote inhabited places on earth, he added.

Bookings are available through A&K on 1300 851 800 or via travel advisors.