David Duchovny replaces Andy Garcia in haunted submarine film Phantom

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

Nice…Mulder’s going under water!

In what at first glance seemed to be a throwaway b-picture, the ever-expanding cast of Todd Robinson’s submarine thriller PHANTOM is really starting to impress.

According to Variety, David Duchovny has replaced Andy Garcia, joining Ed Harris, William Fichtner, Natascha McElhone (below), Julian Adams and Jason Gray-Stanford. Word is Duchovny will portray the leader of the Soviet special forces team aboard the submarine, whose mission is cloaked in mystery.

Here’s the latest break-down for the film:

Suspicion between the superpowers is at its peak and the Americans are staging a mass Naval exercise in the Pacific. To observe the manoeuvres submarine Captain Dmitri Zubov, an experienced sailor but a man troubled by a past he struggles to live with, sets sail on what is the final mission of Soviet submarine B756. Armed with multiple torpedoes and a single tactical nuclear ballistic missile the sub is also fitted with a cloaking device that can render them invisible to the Americans.

When B756 fails to make a position report – the last that is heard from the sub it was 500 nautical miles NW of the Hawaiian Islands – Fleet Command classifies the vessel as missing. Fearing western retaliation they send their entire fleet after B756.

Meanwhile deep under the Pacific Ocean Captain Zubov and the ship’s crew of the B-756 uncover a plot that will destroy humanity. Zubov is determined to foil the plot but as the sub is pushed to its very limits and air supplies diminish, he and the crew face almost impossible odds and an increasingly unsettling sense that they are not alone…