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Director Ron Howard hit the source material jackpot with Nathaniel Philbrick‘s book, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. Not only does it tell the harrowing true story of the crew aboard an American whaleship that was attacked by an enormous sperm whale in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, but it’s also packed with rich historical details about the whaling industry and Nantucket in 1820. On top of that, the story of the Essex is said to have inspired Herman Melville‘s Moby Dick as well.
Clearly Howard had a lot to work with, but, In the Heart of the Sea is just one two-hour movie so the challenge of figuring out how much to include of each element was something that needed to be addressed from the inception of the idea all the way through the test screening process.
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