Wolfs actor Austin Abrams will attempt to survive an hour contained in the mouth of a sperm whale in a movie adaptation of Daniel Krauss’s Whalefall.
Thar she blows! Spontaneous and No One Will Save You director Brian Duffield is dropping anchor on Whalefall, a novel undersea thriller with Wolfs actor Austin Abrams within the lead function. After scouring the depths of the audition pool for the proper actor to dive into the story, Abrams emerged because the best choice to topline the movie primarily based on the Daniel Krauss novel. The formidable challenge lands with twentieth Century, with Duffield co-writing the script alongside Krauss.
Deadline describes Whalefall as The Martian meets 127 Hours. The scientifically-accurate story focuses on a scuba diver looking for his deceased father’s stays, solely to get swallowed by an eighty-foot, sixty-ton sperm whale with just one hour to flee earlier than oxygen runs out. Whereas struggling to outlive, the younger diver discovers a brand new motive to reside in essentially the most unlikely place.
Right here’s a synopsis for Krauss’s novel courtesy of Amazon:
Jay Gardiner has given himself a idiot’s errand—to search out the stays of his deceased father within the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Seaside. He is aware of it’s a protracted shot, however Jay feels it’s the one approach for him to carry the burden of guilt he has carried since his dad’s dying by suicide the earlier yr.
The dive begins effectively sufficient, however the sudden look of a large squid places Jay in very actual jeopardy, made infinitely worse by the arrival of a sperm whale seeking to feed. Abruptly, Jay is caught within the squid’s tentacles and drawn into the whale’s mouth the place he’s pulled into the primary of its 4 stomachs. He rapidly realizes he has just one hour earlier than his oxygen tanks run out—one hour to defeat his demons and escape the stomach of a whale.
Granted, I’ve no idea of how massive a sperm whale is when in comparison with a human, however rattling. I’ve looked for comparability pictures on-line however have but to search out one which does the idea justice. I’m , although. In line with Deadline, competitors to guide Whalefall was fierce, with Austin Abrams beating many actors to the punch.
Austin Abrams seems in movies like Paper Cities, Scary Tales to Inform within the Darkish, and Do Revenge, although he just lately starred alongside Brad Pitt and George Clooney within the Jon Watts crime thriller Wolfs for Apple TV+. Whalefall seems like a whale of a time, and I think about the filming course of will probably be grueling and intense.
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