Sea Wolf (miniseries)

The Sea Wolf
Based on The Sea-Wolf by Jack London
Written by Nigel Williams
Directed by Michael Barker
Starring Sebastian Koch
Tim Roth
Neve Campbell
Stephen Campbell Moore
Composer(s) Richard G. Mitchell
Country of origin Germany, Canada
Original language(s) English
No. of episodes 2
Production
Producer(s) Herbert G. Kloiber
Rikolt von Gagern
Verena von Heeremann
Cinematography Richard Greatrex
Running time 180 minutes
Distributor TeleMunchen
Budget $19,000,000
Release
Original release 2009 (2009)

Sea Wolf is a 2-part TV miniseries adapting the 1904 novel The Sea-Wolf, written by Jack London.

Plot

In a mishap, a young poetry critic Humphrey van Weyden is cast adrift in the open sea. He is picked up by a seal hunting schooner, but his miraculous escape turns into a brutal struggle for survival. The schooner is captained by 'Wolf' Larsen - an authoritarian and harsh captain.

Production

The series was mostly shot in Halifax, Nova Scotia using the Halifax waterfront doubling as San Francisco with shipboard scenes filmed aboard the schooners Alabama, Silva and the museum ship CSS Acadia at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.[1]

Cast

References

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