While we expected it to arrive at a fall festival, it looks like Kevin Macdonald‘s Black Sea will simply be riding into theaters earlier next year. Led by Jude Law as a rogue submarine captain who is searching for sunken treasure in the depths of the ocean, the first trailer has now arrived today for the film also starring Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, David Threlfall, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Sergey Puskepalis, Michael Smiley, and Grigory Dobrygin.
Attempting to capture the tone of classics like Run Silent, Run Deep and Das Boot, the director said last year, “They’re incredibly tense, exciting films because of the claustrophobia and the sense that you’re somewhere you shouldn’t be. Like in space, if something goes wrong, you’re dead.” As fans of the Macdonald, hopefully he can invoke at least some of the intense scenarios found in those aforementioned classics and as we await the release, check out the trailer below.
Black Sea centers on a rogue submarine captain (Jude Law) who, after being laid off from a salvage company, pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control on board their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the mission causes the men to turn on each other to fight for their own survival.
Black Sea opens on January 23rd, 2015.