For those that worry flying, the thriller “Deep Water” reveals a brand new nightmare: surviving an emergency touchdown, solely to search out your self surrounded by man-eating sharks.
Starring Oscar-winner Sir Ben Kingsley (“Gandhi”) and Aaron Eckhart (“Batman: The Dark Knight”), the catastrophe flick was produced by “Kiss” singer Gene Simmons.
The movie blends motion with horror — two genres well-known to its director.
Finnish filmmaker Renny Harlin, who has beforehand helmed hits like “Die Hard 2,” “Cliffhanger,” and “A Nightmare on Elm Street 4,” mentioned “Deep Water” is definitely a human drama.
“If you took away the plane crash and you took away the sharks…it’s all about those people put in an extraordinary situation and seeing who they really are,” he instructed AFP.
The survival thriller marks one other aquatic plunge for the 67-year-old director, who was additionally behind “Deep Blue Sea” (1999), starring Samuel L. Jackson.
This time, his characters plunge into a brand new nightmare when the airplane taking them from Los Angeles to Shanghai makes an emergency touchdown in the midst of the ocean, leaving them on the mercy of a college of hungry mako sharks.
The director, who has labored with display screen robust guys like Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone mentioned flying, nonetheless commonplace, stays “unnatural” and might be terrifying for many individuals.
“When you put characters in a situation that feels dangerous to begin with, and then you take them through something extreme, which is a plane crash…ending up in the water and being surrounded by sharks, then obviously, you have a situation that is scary,” he mentioned. “It’s one of those things where you really put yourself into that situation, and imagine what you would do.”
The director’s involvement attracted Gene Simmons, the make-up sporting bassist and vocalist of “Kiss,” to provide the movie.
Simmons mentioned he feels continually drawn to the inventive course of that makes the magic of cinema potential.
But the movie introduced again some less-than-scary reminiscences for the musician, a frequent traveler who toured the world with the “I Was Made For Lovin’ You” outfit.
The musician recounted how on one in a single day flight to Tokyo, he had received up from his seat to make use of the amenities, however seemingly forgot to lock the door.
An off-duty flight attendant “had to go too, but she maybe accidentally opened my restroom,” the veteran rocker mentioned.
“She decided there was room for two,” he added with a smile.
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