It’s a Casey Affleck kind of morning. After featuring the new trailer for Triple 9, we have another preview at one his other early 2016 features, The Finest Hours, which captures the true story behind greatest small boat rescue in Coast Guard history. Directed by Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl, Million Dollar Arm), the preview shows off what’s clearly his biggest-scale film yet.
Based on Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman‘s book, adapted by The Fighter trio of Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, and Eric Johnson, the cast also includes Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Holliday Grainger, John Ortiz, and Eric Bana. While the late January release is a bit worrisome, Gillespie has proven himself to be a solid director, so with this cast, hopefully it turns out be an early-year surprise. Check out the preview below, along with a new poster.
On February 18, 1952, a massive nor’easter struck New England, pummeling towns along the Eastern seaboard and wreaking havoc on the ships caught in its deadly path, including the SS Pendleton, a T-2 oil tanker bound for Boston, which was literally ripped in half, trapping more than 30 sailors inside its rapidly-sinking stern. As the senior officer on board, first assistant engineer Ray Sybert (Casey Affleck) soon realizes it is up to him to take charge of the frightened crew and inspire the men to set aside their differences and work together to ride out one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast.
Meanwhile, as word of the disaster reaches the U.S. Coast Guard station in Chatham, Massachusetts, Warrant Officer Daniel Cluff (Eric Bana) orders a daring operation to rescue the stranded men. Despite overwhelming odds, four men, led by Coast Guard Captain Bernie Webber (Chris Pine), set out in a wooden lifeboat with an ill-equipped engine and little, if any, means of navigation, facing frigid temperatures, 60-foot high waves and hurricane-force winds.
The Finest Hours opens on January 29th, 2016.