New trailer for In The Heart of the Sea chases real life Moby Dick.
This promises to be a whale of a tale. Ron Howard, the Oscar winning director of A Beautiful Mind, Cocoon and Splash, is bringing Nathaniel Philbrick’s best-selling book In the Heart of the Sea to the big screen. The film will explore the true story of the ship “the Essex,” which inspired the book Moby Dick.
“In the Heart of the Sea” will Chris Hemsworth from the films The Avengers and Rush, as Owen Chase, first mate on the ship; Benjamin Walker from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunterwill play George Pollard the skipper; Cillian Murphy from The Dark Knight Rises will play second mate Matthew Joy; Ben Whishaw from Skyfall will play Herman Melville, who investigated the story 30 years after it happened and turned it into the book everyone claims to have read.
Tom Holland from The Impossible will play Tom Nickerson, a young sailor on the boat and Brendan Gleeson from Edge of Tomorrowwill play Nickerson 30 years later. Spanish actor Jordi Mollá of Riddick is on board another ship which has already seen the trouble and tries to warn the Essex.
The screenplay was written by Charles Leavitt, who wrote Blood Diamond.
According to the official synopsis, “ In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. “In the Heart of the Sea” reveals the encounter’s harrowing aftermath, as the ship’s surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive. Braving storms, starvation, panic and despair, the men will call into question their deepest beliefs, from the value of their lives to the morality of their trade, as their captain searches for direction on the open sea and his first mate still seeks to bring the great whale down.”
In the Heart of the Sea opens on March 13, 2015X from Warner Bros. Pictures.
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