‘Wolfs’ Breakout Austin Abrams To Star In ‘Whalefall’ From 20th Century, Imagine And Brian Duffield
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Following an extensive auditioning process, rising star Austin Abrams has landed the lead role in 20th Century’s adaptation of the Daniel Kraus novel Whalefall with Brian Duffield directing.
Duffield will co-write the script with Kraus. The film is is described as The Martian meets 127 Hours, about a scuba diver in search of his deceased father’s remains who gets swallowed by an eighty-foot, sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his oxygen runs out.
After giving up on life, the young man is surprised to find a reason to live in the most dangerous and unlikely of places. Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer, Jeb Brody and Allan Mandelbaum are producing.
Mandelbaum brought the book into Imagine and previously produced Duffield’s No One Will Save You (for 20th Century Studios).
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