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Life has unveiled thirteen of the fake covers used in ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’

Life has unveiled thirteen of the fake covers used in ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’

Life has unveiled thirteen of the fake covers used in the movie The Secret Life of Walter Mitty that they helped to create. This most recent adaptation of the story of a magazine photo editor, featured a number of iconic-looking magazine covers, but most of them were fake.

LIFE.com offers a bit of insight into the covers:

“In this rendition of the tale, Stiller plays a photo editor at LIFE magazine—still publishing, thanks to the magic of the movies, four decades after it shuttered in 1972— and much of the film is set in the meticulously recreated offices of the storied weekly. In those offices, meanwhile, hang poster-sized versions of LIFE magazine covers through the years. The covers are stirring, iconic—and, for the most part, they’re fake.”

Here, then, are the covers.

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