The Poseidon Adventure (remake)

[Brian in Mesa]

Foursome Boards The Poseidon Adventure
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
June 6, 2005

Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, Emmy Rossum and Mike Vogel will star in Wolfgang Petersen's remake of The Poseidon Adventure, while Andre Braugher is in talks to join the cast.

Like Fox's 1972 original, the Warner Bros. film follows the survivors of the S.S. Poseidon, a cruise ship which is capsized by a tidal wave. The survivors, trapped inside, are forced to work their way to the surface of the upside down ship through the hull.

The Hollywood Reporter says Russell is playing an ex-fireman and mayor who is traveling with his daughter (Rossum) and her boyfriend (Vogel). Dreyfuss plays a gay man whose relationship breaks up just before departure. Braugher would play the ship's captain.

Mark Protosevich and Akiva Goldsman wrote the screenplay for the film, which is based on Paul Gallico's novel. Shooting is scheduled to begin June 18 on the Warners lot.

 

[Stout]

Boo.

 

[Pariah]

Double boo.

 

[Dback Jon]

Triple Boo.

Posedian Adventure without Shelly Winters - travesty!

 

[Chaplin]

It's called simply, "Poseidon".

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Josh Lucas Hops Aboard Poseidon
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
June 7, 2005

Josh Lucas has joined the cast of Warner Bros. Pictures' remake of The Poseidon Adventure for director Wolfgang Petersen, says The Hollywood Reporter. Lucas will play the role of the ship-hopping gambler.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

It's called simply, "Poseidon".

You are correct, sir.

Poseidon

Release Date: May 12, 2006 (conventional theaters & IMAX)
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Screenwriter: Mark Protosevich
Genre: Action, Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for intense prolonged sequences of disaster and peril)
Website: Poseidon

Starring: Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Emmy Rossum, Jacinda Barrett, Mike Vogel, Jimmy Bennett, Mia Maestro, Andre Braugher, Richard Dreyfuss, Kevin Dillon, Freddy Rodríguez

Plot Summary: It's New Year's Eve and festivities have begun aboard the luxury cruise ship Poseidon, at sea in the North Atlantic.

One of the finest vessels of its kind, Poseidon stands more than 20 stories tall, boasts 800 staterooms and 13 passenger decks.

Tonight, many of the ship's guests have gathered to greet the new year in style in the magnificent Main Ballroom. They raise champagne glasses as Captain Bradford (Andre Braugher) delivers a holiday toast and the band rolls into a version of Auld Lang Syne.

Meanwhile, on the bridge, the Chief Officer senses that something is wrong.

Scanning the horizon, he sees it – a Rogue Wave; a monstrous wall of water over one hundred feet high, bearing down on them with tremendous speed. He tries to steer the ship away from maximum impact but it's too late.

The wave strikes with colossal force, pitching the ship heavily to port before rolling it completely upside down. Passengers and crew are thrown into free fall, crushed by debris or dragged into the sea as water bursts in through shattered windows. Supports collapse, broken gas lines ignite flash fires and lights fail, leaving vast sections of the ship in darkness and chaos.

In its aftermath a few hundred survivors are left to huddle in the still-intact Main Ballroom, now resting below the waterline. They should stay together, the captain maintains, and wait here for rescue.

One man, professional gambler Dylan Johns (Josh Lucas), prefers to test the odds alone. Ignoring orders, he prepares to exit the Ballroom and find his own way to safety, but is collared by nine-year-old Conor (Jimmy Bennett), who asks that Dylan take him and his mother Maggie (Jacinda Barrett) along. Fast behind them is Robert Ramsey (Kurt Russell), anxious to search for his daughter Jennifer (Emmy Rossum) and her fiancé Christian (Mike Vogel). Only an hour earlier this young couple had found it impossible to tell him they were engaged and now face much graver challenges.

Wary of alliances, Dylan reluctantly leads the small band of survivors upward through the bowels of the ship. Those who choose to join them rather than wait below include a shy stowaway (Mia Maestro), a suicidal man (Richard Dreyfuss) who re-discovers his will to live and a young waiter with knowledge of the ship's layout (Freddy Rodriguez).

Determined to fight their way to the surface, they must forge a path together through layers of wreckage as the ship continues to sink. Bonds form quickly in this journey of vertical climbs, dead ends and sheer drops. And trust proves vital.

 

[Shane]

Went and saw it tonight. Was entertaining. But I would wait for video. It was worth a view. it was good to see Richard Dreyfus on the Big Screen again.

 

[Bada0Bing]

I just watched it. This had some of the dumbest lines I’ve heard in a long time. Luckily it was pretty short. It was nonstop action after about 15 minutes in, but it didn’t allow for any sort of character development. The part when they were crawling through the vents was pretty intense. It gave me the heebie-jeebies a little bit.

Spoiler

The Armageddon ending made me want to puke.

However, I thought that Josh Lucas did a pretty good job as the leader of the crew. I’ve been on his bandwagon for a few years now.