Coming May 12, 2006
- Official Website
- Trailer (windows media)
Warner Bros. Pictures has released the first look at their teaser one-sheet for director Wolfgang Petersen's Poseidon, hitting conventional theaters and IMAX theaters on May 12. The action-adventure stars Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Emmy Rossum, Jacinda Barrett, Mike Vogel, Jimmy Bennett, Mia Maestro, Andre Braugher and Richard Dreyfuss. Here it is.
If anyone remembers the great disaster movies of the 70's and 80's - films like The Poseidon Adventure, Airport 77, Earthquake, and Towering Inferno - they could stand a good remake, with the special effects that are available today. Kurt Russell plays Gene Hackman's part this time around - and judging from the trailer and one-sheet, they didn't change the story around into someone's own retelling, which is good. CGI and effects are much better serving a story like this, or Perfect Storm, than a movie like King Kong. No matter how hard they try, computer generated creatures just never look real enough to capture me. Storms and battle landscapes are when its at its best. Psyched to check this out in May. Here's the official synopsis.
When a rogue wave capsizes a luxury cruise ship in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, a small group of survivors find themselves unlikely allies in a battle for their lives. Preferring to test the odds alone, career gambler John Dylan (Josh Lucas) ignores captain's orders (Andre Braugher) to wait below for possible rescue and sets out to find his own way to safety. What begins as a solo mission soon draws others as Dylan is followed by a desperate father (Kurt Russell) searching for his daughter (Emmy Rossum) and her fiancι (Mike Vogel), a young couple who hours before couldn't summon the courage to tell him they were engaged and now face much graver challenges. Along the way they are joined by a single mother (Jacinda Barrett) and her wise-beyond-his-years son (Jimmy Bennett), an anxious stowaway (Mia Maestro) and a despondent fellow passenger (Richard Dreyfuss) who boarded the ship not sure he wanted to live but now knows he doesn't want to die. Determined to fight their way to the surface, the group sets off through the disorienting maze of twisted steel in the upside-down wreckage. As the unstable vessel rapidly fills with water each must draw on skills and strengths they didn't even know they possessed, fighting against time for their own survival and for each other.
