Work begins on a new POSEIDON ADVENTURE

With THE PERFECT STORM's director to produce

By Patrick Sauriol     February 24, 2004
Source: Variety

THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE is setting sail once again.

THE PERFECT STORM director Wolfgang Petersen and television producer Mike Fleiss are teaming up to remake the 1972 disaster film using state-of-the-art technology. The picture is set up at Warner Bros. and both men will act as producers on the new picture.

The original movie starred Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Leslie Nielsen and Shelley Winters and told the story of a luxury cruise liner that is capsized by a rogue wave during a fierce storm. With the ship now upside-down, the surviving passengers have to find their own way up to the hull before the vessel sinks or takes on more water. POSEIDON was the first of another wave, those being a string of event pictures about disasters and featuring an ensemble of celebrity actors among their casts. THE TOWERING INFERNO led to EARTHQUAKE which led to the sub-genre of animal disaster movies like THE SWARM. One can only wonder if Petersen's new POSEIDEON adventure will lead to a resurgence of the disaster film genre.


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