Real-life stories of heroism have long been a staple of big movies, and now here comes another with the first trailer for The Finest Hours.
Set in 1952, the film finds the shore of Cape Cod in New England battered by one of the most disastrous storms ever to hit the East Coast of the US. As a massive oil tanker is caught and literally ripped apart by the waves and the wind, a brave Coast Guard crew heads out to rescue the sailors still trapped aboard the rapidly sinking vessel. But the job will not be an easy one, especially given the treacherous conditions.
Chris Pine, more used to charting the depths of space as the captain of Star Trek’s Enterprise than navigating giant waves, here leads his team into danger at the behest of Eric Bana’s commander, while his fiancée (Holliday Grainger) demands the return of the crew, worried that they’ve been sent on a suicide mission.
Fright Night’s Craig Gillespie directs this one, working from a script by The Fighter’s Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson that adapts Casey Sherman and Michael J. Tougias’ 2010 non-fiction book about the incident. The film also features Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Graham McTavish, Kyle Gallner and Rachel Brosnahan and will dock with UK cinemas on October 16.