Details

Release year: 1998

Storyline

A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, tentacled, man-eating sea creatures who had already invaded the ship.

Top credits

Directors

Stephen Sommers

Writers

Stephen Sommers

Cast

Treat Williams — John Finnegan
Famke Janssen — Trillian St. James
Anthony Heald — Simon Canton
Kevin J. O'Connor — Joey Pantucci

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Did you know

• Kevin J. O'Connor added the line where he asks if a person can "suddenly get asthma"

• Joey Pantucci originally was killed by one of the sea monsters in an earlier cut of the film. However, after preview audiences expressed dissatisfaction about Pantucci's death a reshoot was done in which Pantucci is still alive at the end of the movie.

• The island that the survivors become stranded on at the end of the film is more than a simple nod to King Kong and Skull Island. It was actually intended to be a lead-in to a King Kong reboot which also would have been directed by Stephen Sommers. In the late 1990's, an idea for a modern day Kong reboot began making its way through Hollywood Pictures. It was to be a response to the rather poorly received Godzilla (1998) by Tri-Star Pictures, which was released that same year. The idea was initially picked up, and Sommers, already attached to the upcoming Mummy reboot, expressed a strong interest in becoming involved with the project. The reboot wound up in "Development Hell" and eventually was passed on to other studios, becoming the basis for the 2005 remake by Peter Jackson.