Ed Harris. Bill Fichtner. Andy Garcia. Natasha McElhone. All trapped in a ghastly submarine? Seriously, where the hell else would you want to be?
Well folks, an extended synopsis and promo poster for PHANTOM, Todd Robinson’s underwater thriller, has just made our acquaintance. The poster has a dark, ominous vibe, even if riffing on GHOST SHIP a tad too much. Still, with a cast of this caliber, in a film of this particular subgenre…I cannot wait!
With Jason Gray-Stanford and Julian Adams also onboard:
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…
Expect PHANTOM to dock sometime in 2012.