EXCLUSIVE: When Dr. John Shears led the 2022 expedition to find Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship the Endurance, a former boss gave him a 10% chance of success. “I said to him: ‘Well, Shackleton would have taken that chance,’” he tells Deadline.
The extraordinary tale of the effort to find the famous explorer’s ship plays out alongside jaw-dropping newly color-treated footage of the original expedition in Endurance.
The feature documentary comes from the Oscar-winning team of Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin and Bafta-nominated Natalie Hewit.
In their first interview about the project, Vasarhelyi, Shears and producer Ruth Johnston tell Deadline about the film, which meshes historic and modern-day adventure.
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