Another Warner Bros. Pictures' breathtaking film is going to flood the cinemas on 2015!
Oscar winner ("A Beautiful Mind") director Ron Howard stars Chris Hemsworth ("Marvel's The Avengers," "Rush") as the vessel's veteran first mate Owen Chase; Benjamin Walker ("Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter") as its inexperienced Captain, George Pollard; Cillian Murphy ("The Dark Knight Rises") as second mate Matthew Joy; and Ben Whishaw ("Skyfall") as novelist Herman Melville, whose inquiries into the event 30 years later helped bring the story to light, in his action adventure film In the Heart of the Sea, which is based on Nathaniel Philbrick's best-selling book, In the Heart of the Sea.
The book tells the story of the real-life maritime disaster that inspired Herman Melville's "Moby Dick." Howard follows the crew in the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex. As they sail from Nantucket to the South Pacific and encounter the infamous 80-foot sperm whale, stranding its crew at sea for 90 days, thousands of miles from home.
Per Warner Bros., "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 film also stars Tom Holland ("The Impossible") as young seaman Tom Nickerson, and Brendan Gleeson ("Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1") as the same man, 30 years later. Spanish actor Jordi Mollà ("Riddick") is the captain of another ship, the Archimedes, who tries to warn the Essex of what may lie ahead.
On the other hand, in an interview with Jimmy Kimmel, Chris Hemsworth revealed that to prepare for the role of starving sailors, the cast were on a diet of 500-600 calories a day to lose weight.
The movie "In the Heart of the Sea" will be release on theaters and IMAX on March 13, 2015.
