So maybe Chris Hemsworth is slightly outshined at the box-office by his Marvel pals Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans of late. That’s okay, he’s getting a lot of work and will be seen onscreen four times next year. Yep, in 2015, we’ll see Hemsworth leading a Michael Mann movie (“Blackhat”), another Marvel movie (“Avengers: Age Of Ultron”), and a reboot (the “Vacation” series). But Hemsworth will also reteam once again with his “Rush” director Ron Howard for “In The Heart Of The Sea.”
The film concerns a whaling ship that was preyed upon by a sperm whale in 1820 —the same whale that inspired Herman Melville’s tale of “Moby Dick.” "He’s kind of like Clint Eastwood," visual effects supervisor Jody Johnson told Empire earlier this year about the whale in the movie (no joke). "He’s a high plains drifter. He comes and helps out his own kind, but he’s a bit of a sociopath as well."
So “In The Heart Of The Sea” stars Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker and Cillian Murphy as the members of the ship’s crew, and Ben Whishaw (“Skyfall”) stars as novelist Herman Melville, whose inquiries into the event 30 years later helped bring the story to light. Here’s 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. “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.
The movie also co-stars Tom Holland (“The Impossible”), Brendan Gleeson (“Calvary”), Michelle Fairley (“Game Of Thrones”), Charlotte Riley and Spanish actor Jordi Mollà (“Riddick”). “In the Heart of the Sea” opens on March 15, 2015 via Warner Bros. Watch the new trailer below.
Interstellar has not even released, already people are copying the silent loew key music treatment for trailers.
JH, I completely agree and glad to hear I\’m not the only one who had those same thoughts after watching the trailer.
It\’s like they used the filter-settings from CSI-Miami…kinda
I thought Rush looked fine but this does look cheap in some scenes. It doesn\’t look overlit though. It looks a little dark.
Anthony Dod Mantle seems to have developed a real knack for making really expensive movies look really cheap. This and RUSH both have that odd, overlit Janusz Kaminski look that kind of makes a large budget movie look like high end TV. It\’s a shame, when you think how amazing something like this could look (like Master and Commander, for instance).
Same goes for all that CGI work – I know it\’s probably unfinished, blah blah blah, but it just looks crap. I\’m sorry, but it looks like it was all shot in front of a green screen in a studio. Have we not learned from the Star Wars prequels, and the Hobbit movies how over reliance on CGI just sinks a movie by making it look like a flipping video game? Bring back practical effects I say.
So… the whale is the villain?