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Published: June 12, 2012
Hollywood’s next big thing could be whaling stories. Two potential box-office behemoths are in the works.
Universal is making “Moby Dick,” which will be the fourth full-scale American movie of Herman Melville’s 1851 classic. Meanwhile, producer Joe Roth has signed the actor Chris Hemsworth to star in a film of Thomas Philbrick’s “In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex,” which won the 2000 National Book Award for Non-Fiction. “Moby Dick” was inspired by the sinking of the 238-ton Nantucket whaler Essex by a sperm whale in the South Pacific in 1820. Read the full post on Spotlight.