Et overraskende stort stjernelag har samlet seg rundt indieregissøren Shane Carruths nye film The Modern Ocean.

I september rapporterte vi om at Carruth omsider (og allerede) er i gang med sin tredje spillefilm, det nautiske eventyret The Modern Ocean. Det tok hele ni år mellom spillefilmdebuten Primer (2004) og Upstream Color (2013), og det er derfor gledelig å observere at det går noe fortere gjennom dønningene med The Modern Ocean. I dag melder bl.a. The Playlist at skuespillerkobbelet Anne Hathaway, Keanu Reeves, Daniel Radcliffe, Chloë Grace Moretz, Tom Holland, Asa Butterfield, Abraham Attah og Jeff Goldblum skal fylle rollelisten for Carruths episke sjøfilm.

Carruth uttalte følgende om prosjektet til The Playlist under Berlinalen i 2013, i anledning Upstream Colors europeiske premiere:

There’s no genre or otherworldly elements in it, it’s set in the modern day on shipping routes, with people who build routes to trade – you know, vanilla from Madagascar and then pick up crude oil and drop it off in India. They build up this intellectual property of a route that is profitable and they sell it off to a bigger corporation… They’re building up the proof that this route will work, and selling it off, dealing with tidal systems and routes and currents and weather. So there are these competing companies and these inner personal things happening. It’s pirates, repo men, bolt cutters and sniper rifles, but at the same time it’s the same emotional language as Upstream Colour, just magnified. I’m very excited by it.

FilmNation vil representere The Modern Ocean under American Film Market (AFM), som går at stabelen i California i morgen, med håp om å sikre finansiering gjennom utenlandssalg. La oss håpe handelen går godt, slik at Carruth kan komme raskt i gang med innspillingen.