ADRIFT Trailer

A romantic trip goes awry in Adrift, the latest from disaster connoisseur Baltasar Kormákur.

The story starts off well enough. Attractive strangers meet on a sunny beach, romance blossoms, and a business proposition is offered. A boat needs sailed to California, and the two lovebirds take on the solitary task together. Little do they know that this puts them directly in the path of a massive hurricane, which literally crashes their plans and leaves them fighting to make it back to land.

This makes for an exciting movie, but unfortunately it’s something that really happened to Tami Oldham and Richard Sharp. Yep, Adrift is another based on a true disaster film from Kormákur, who has already brought real mountain and sea catastrophes to the screen with Everest and The Deep.

It’s the screenwriters here who are surprising, as the story was crafted by one of the writing duos behind Moana and the co-writer of Ingrid Goes West. At least the Moana team bring experience keeping audiences entertained on the high seas, but nothing else in the kid-friendly/paranoid satire background of this group seems applicable.

Something about this project was attractive enough to land solid leads in Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin, though, who ostensibly will have to carry this two-hander. Maybe the prospect of a nice beach shoot was behind their decisions, but from the looks of this trailer, they spent most of their time getting grungy and beat up. Hopefully they weren’t expecting an easy shoot, but then again, that would make for a nice parallel to the characters they play.

Adrift is directed by Baltasar Kormákur and stars Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin. It will be released in the US and the UK on June 1st, 2018. For international release dates, click here.

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