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Sea Wolf (miniseries)
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Wikipedia article
'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.[http://maritimemuseum.novascotia.ca/filmography "CSS Acadia Filmography", 'Maritime Museum of the Atlantic']
Cast
*Sebastian Koch - Wolf Larsen
*Tim Roth - Death Larsen
*Neve Campbell - Maud Brewster
*Stephen Campbell Moore - Humphrey Van Weyden
*Andrew Jackson - Johnson
*Tobias Schenke - Leach
References
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