'The Modern Ocean' with Anne Hathaway, Keanu Reeves, Daniel Radcliffe + Others

[Fallen Angel]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/modern-ocean-anne-hathaway-keanu-836736?utm_source=twitter

Emerging filmmaker Shane Carruth has assembled an impressive cast for his latest movie project, The Modern Ocean.

Anne Hathaway, Keanu Reeves, Daniel Radcliffe, Chloe Grace Moretz, Tom Holland, Asa Butterfield, Jeff Goldblum and Beasts of No Nation breakout Abraham Attah will star in the ensemble adventure drama, based on Carruth's 200-page script, which is described as being filled with pictures and diagrams.




The storyline revolves around vengeance and the fierce competition for valuable shipping routes and priceless materials that converge in a spectacular battle on the rolling decks of behemoth cargo ships.


"This epic tale, fraught with danger and intrigue, takes us from the ancient trading houses of Algeria to the darkest depths of the ocean floor," said FilmNation in describing the project, which it will introduce to foreign buyers converging this week in Santa Monica for the American Film Market.


The producers are promising a movie that will be “enormously inventive, but grounded in arcane reality” and “will draw audiences into a secretive world filled with mysterious technologies and bitter rivalries.”


Character details for the actors’ roles were not revealed.

 

[AnneFan]

The Anne movies continue.

 

[Majik1387]

This seems interesting and such a powerful cast.

 

[childeroland]

Excellent, excellent. Hoping this film will be a success and give Carruth more opportunities -- maybe even a shot at doing Topiary.

 

[Black Narcissus]

Here for Abraham Attah.

 

[Boy Scout]

The story doesn't sound interesting at all, but...dat cast.

 

[Napoleon]

Will this be a period piece?

 

[dude stannis]

Sounds bizarre and amazing. Hopefully this is a more fun role for Attah. He deserves it.

 

[Fallen Angel]

Will this be a period piece?

Not a clue but I'm presuming it's present day. I mean we still have piracy , cargo's on shipping routes nowadays anyway.

 

[Tim_Riggins]

Abraham, yes !

 

[Fallen Angel]

 

[Octoberist]

Awesome cast!

 

[Black Narcissus]

I don't know how many of ya'll are familiar with this director, but his films would make Nolan add two or three characters explaining stuff. lawd.

 

[Fallen Angel]

I don't know how many of ya'll are familiar with this director, but his films would make Nolan add two or three characters explaining stuff. lawd.

I was just thinking that. Terrence Malick would even struggle.

 

[Doctor Jones]

This sound promising and pretty unique.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Interested to know more about the concept.

 

[AnneFan]

Tom Holland and Asa Butterfield in the same film, too. Should be interesting.

 

[Fallen Angel]

Interested to know more about the concept.

Shane Carruth has a 200 page screenplay for this. So it must be epic in scope.

 

[Airwings]

Tom Holland and Asa Butterfield in the same film, too. Should be interesting.

It got my attention too. Just incredible!
And Moretz is also cast!!!

Now I'm waiting for a ensemble piece that has Lerman, Highmore, Sangster, Smit-McPhee, Hoult, Emma Watson, Saoirse Ronan, Abigail Breslin etc

 

[Octoberist]

Shane Carruth has a 200 page screenplay for this. So it must be epic in scope.

That's nuts.

 

[redhawk23]

This is kind of crazy news.

 

[Fallen Angel]

Shane Carruth on the movie.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/we...about-the-human-drama-behind-the-modern-ocean

The film’s plot is still under wraps while it's in pre-production, and Carruth tells me there’ll be a cast of about 30 people: 10 in an ensemble and about 20 for the supporting cast.

MOTHERBOARD: So why is this one on the ocean?
Shane Carruth: So the ocean is a place where I can set a story on a world stage. The ocean is not policed in any kind of perfect way. And a lot of things happen out there that, you know, it's sort of every man for himself or every group of men for themselves.
And it tests everything. It tests everyone's loyalty, because there is no one to run to and say "someone did something bad, I need to call the cops!" You have to deal with it right there with the means at your disposal.
So that was the number one reason, because I've got a story where I need that. I need to have my characters all making choices that are a combination or compromise between loyalty and their own motives and that gives me that playing field.

And why shipping routes instead of something else?

I am interested in shipping routes, but mainly because they given me a vessel to mirror what's going on. It becomes clear, when we have characters on a ship and they're trying to do something, it’s very much about the mission.
With a ship you're constantly having to navigate and you're constantly having to deal with questions like "what direction are we going? Why are we doing this? Why didn't we do that?"



What did you learn about ships and shipping routes for this?

I definitely had to go to school on the internet to learn about these ships. What size ships are we talking about? What are they doing? How much fuel do they burn? What could be gained if they were moving six knots faster than one that isn't?
I've done a little bit of sailing in my life, and so I know a little bit, but just very much in layman's terms. So I needed to educate myself about these boats, how the ports work, tariff systems, canals. How does traffic work? How does it flow? Is that interesting to me? Do I even care?
If reality doesn't suit my narrative, can I skew reality enough to be passable so that people won't be questioning it? But it suits the narrative better. I just did anything anybody would do when they're tackling this subject matter.

Shipping routes involve a lot of politics—it drives a world economy after all. But how does it figure into the characters?

I'm constantly interested in the politics, interactions between different personalities, different characters. That's what this boils down to: it erupts into a big action film, essentially, but the reasons why it does are the reasons the story exists.
That characters are unable to get aligned is because they're all pointed in different directions, they all have slightly different motives. And that's not always known to the group.

And it's the sort of problem we still have with the whole enterprise. The notion of getting a group of people, perfectly efficiently, toward one goal still sort of alludes us in this world.

And so watching that play out and making sure that every moment is pure and true and every character is doing what they would want to be doing in that moment—that's where the drama comes from, that's why these events keep escalating. That's very important to me.

Where are you taking us?

We're everywhere, we're in New York, Mumbai, Western Africa, Israel, Greece, Mediterranean, the Suez Canal. We're all over the place. It’s important that this story that exists on the world stage instead of something of just in LA or New York or Connecticut, whatever.

 

[psylockolussus]

The only actor in this film that I'm interested with is Anne Hathaway. I don't care with Daniel Radcliffe's films outside Harry Potter and Keanu Reeves' films are a mixed bag as a whole.

 

[Jake Cassidy]

Keanu Reeves is a God and Jeff Goldblum is a ****ing Legend.