Remember that movie Phone Booth, where a young Colin Farrell spends nearly the entire movie trapped in one? The pitch for that one must’ve been pretty impressive, but it’s got nothing on Whalefall, which is about a grief-stricken guy who gets swallowed up by a sperm whale and has just one hour to escape before he runs out of air.
Sold already? Me, too.
This wild thriller comes from director/co-writer Brian Duffield, quietly one of the most impressive filmmakers around. Duffield’s two features behind the camera, Spontaneous and No One Will Save You, are unique genre flicks that should be on your list of movies to seek out. But Duffield has also done incredible work writing Love & Monsters, The Babysitter, while contributing to the success of Predator: Badlands just last year.
In short, Duffield is a filmmaker I put a lot of trust in.
Whalefall stars the red-hot Austin Abrams, fresh off Zach Cregger’s Weapons and Resident Evil. He’s joined by Josh Brolin, Elisabeth Shue, John Ortiz, Jane Levy, and Emily Rudd. Abrams plays a scuba diver scouring the ocean for his father’s remains, when the unthinkable happens.
20th Century Studios will release Whalefall in theaters on October 16th.
