The Poseidon Adventure (2005 film)

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The Poseidon Adventure
Directed by John Putch
Produced by Mary Church
Written by Paul Gallico (novel)
Bryce Zabel (screenplay)
Starring Adam Baldwin
Rutger Hauer
Steve Guttenberg
Bryan Brown
C. Thomas Howell
Peter Weller
Music by Joe Kraemer
Cinematography Ross Berryman
Editing by Jennifer Jean Cacavas
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Running time 173 min.
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English
Budget $14,000,000 (estimated)
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The Poseidon Adventure is a 2005 action and adventure film based on a novel by Paul Gallico. It is a remake of the 1972 film of the same name.

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[edit] Plot

The plot centered around the SS Poseidon, a state-of-the-art luxury cruise ship on a cruise from Cape Town, South Africa to Sydney, Australia. On New Year's Eve, it is overturned by a terrorist bomb, killing almost all aboard. A passenger attempts to lead a small group of survivors to safety.

[edit] Production

The film was made for television by Larry Levenson Productions, directed by John Putch, written by Bryce Zabel, starring Adam Baldwin and Steve Guttenberg. It was first aired on NBC as a single three-hour event on November 20, 2005. It also aired in 2005 on the Seven Network in Australia (with the name The New Poseidon Adventure), and in 2006 on the USA Network in the United States. In this adaptation, the plot differs from the original book and first feature film in that the ship capsized due to a terrorist act. Though many of the characters remained the same, several were added. Some were dropped all together. The character of Mike Rogo was changed to a sea marshal who works for the Department of Homeland Security. The story was altered because it was felt that the original's disaster was unrealistic since a tsunami out at open sea is only a few inches high and does not to have the strength and size to seriously affect a large vessel.

The final scenes of the film include details from the novel of the Poseidon's sinking that were not part of the original 1972 film adaptation. The final shot was from the air as the ship's propellers slipped beneath the surface, which, by design or coincidence, matches several photographs taken by a news plane of the final moments of the SS Andrea Doria in 1956.

[edit] Reviews

This movie received less-than-enthusiastic reviews from critics (although there were exceptions, such as The New York Times[citation needed] and the New York Post)[citation needed], as well as fans of the original.[citation needed] The movie was mainly put into production in order to ride on the wave of public interest that the 2006 Wolfgang Petersen adaption of the same story was expected to generate.

[edit] Character names

Some characters and rooms were renamed to pay homage; the ship's captain was named Captain Gallico for writer Paul Gallico on whose novel the story is based; the ship's doctor was named Dr. Ballard for Bob Ballard leader of the 1985 expedition that discovered the remains of the RMS Titanic; the ship's lounge named Jak's Lounge for Jak Castro president of The Poseidon Adventure Fan Club.

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