HEART OF THE SEA, New Trailer
Move over Jaws, an even scarier sea creature is about to hit the screens.
The second trailer has just been released for Ron Howard’s In the Heart of the Sea, scheduled to open in theaters on March 13. It is based on Nathaniel Philbrick’s 2000 National Book Award winner of the same title, about the Essex, a Nantucket whaling ship that was stalked and eventually sunk by a sperm whale South Pacific in 1819, setting the crew adrift for 90 days.
This new trailer gives a sense of how frightening that whale will be on the big screen.
Tie ins (for tie-ins to all upcoming book adaptations, check our Edelweiss catalog):
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Movie Tie-in)
Nathaniel Philbrick
Penguin, Trade Paperback January 27, 2015
Audio: January 27, 2015
Nathaniel Philbrick, Scott Brick
Related Titles
There’s several books about the incident, offering opportunities for display.
Foremost is the classic novel, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, who appears in the movie, played by Ben Whishaw. In turn, the novel was inspired by an eyewitness account, written by the Essex’s first mate Owen Chase, played by Chris Hemsworth, published in 1821 under the wonderful title, Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex, of Nantucket Which Was Attacked and Finally Destroyed by A Large Spermaceti-whale, in the Pacific Ocean; With An Account of the Unparalleled Sufferings of the Captain and the Crew during a Space of Ninety-Three Days at Sea, in Open Boats, in the Years 1819 & 1820. It still available in several editions, but with much shorter titles, including The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale, (Penguin Classics, 2000) with an introduction by Philbrick.
In addition to his book for adults, Philbrick also published a version of the story for young readers, Revenge of the Whale, (Penguin/Puffin, 2004).