Why does it seem to me like Kevin Macdonald is always releasing a new movie? Is it because after The Last King of Scotland it seemed like he was a hot commodity only to have production on State of Play essentially implode on him, which was then followed up by the truly lackluster and awful The Eagle? His Marley documentary seemed to gain some attention last year, but his latest, How I Live Now, starring Saoirse Ronan didn’t exactly wow the masses on the festival circuit. Now, seemingly out of nowhere, we have Black Sea starring Jude Law.
In the film Law plays Robinson, an ex-submarine captain and former British Navy man who takes a job with a shadowy backer to search the depths of the Black Sea for a sub that’s rumored to be loaded with gold. Based on the picture above I’d say we can go ahead an stop calling it a rumor.
Macdonald cites the 1958 Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster feature Run Silent Run Deep and Wolfgang Petersen‘s Das Boot as thematic inspirations, telling EW, “They’re incredibly tense, exciting films because of the claustrophobia and the sense that you’re somewhere you shouldn’t be. Like in space, if something goes wrong, you’re dead.” Apparenrly about 80% of the film is being shot on a real Russian submarine from the 1960s.
Check out two additional pictures directly below. Focus will release the film in theaters some time in 2014.
