The Finest Hours

The Finest Hours is an upcoming American disaster drama film directed by Craig Gillespie and written by Eric Johnson and Paul Tamasy, based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Casey Sherman and Michael J. Tougias. The film is about a true story of Pendleton rescue mission attempt by Coast Guard ships. A storm hit and split asunder two oil tankers in 1952. The film is scheduled to be released on January 29, 2016.

Plot
The rescue mission takes place in 1952 off the Cape Cod coast after two oil tankers, SS Fort Mercer and SS Pendleton were destroyed by treacherous winter winds and waves. A motor life boat's crew are heroically involved in rescuing nearly all the tankers' crewmen.

Cast

 * Chris Pine as Bernie
 * Casey Affleck
 * Ben Foster
 * Josh Stewart
 * Graham McTavish as Frank Fauteux
 * Kyle Gallner
 * Holliday Grainger
 * Eric Bana as Daniel Cluff

Production
Walt Disney Pictures and Whitaker Entertainment are producing the film.

On August 12, 2011, Walt Disney Pictures acquired the screen rights to the 2009 novel The Finest Hours. James Whitaker brought the project to produce along with Dorothy Aufiero for his Whitaker Entertainment, and they set The Fighter's screenwriters Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson to write the script for the film. On September 20, 2012, Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thrones director Tim Van Patten was in talks to direct the Coast Guard rescue drama, it was Patten's first feature film to direct. It was also told that Tamasy and Johnson wrote the script based on the book and interviews they took from the survivors of the incident. On May 29, 2013, Robert Schwentke was in talks to direct the film. On April 17, 2014, Disney hired Craig Gillespie to direct the film.

Casting was done from April through October, 2014.

Principal photography began on September 8, 2014, in Quincy, Massachusetts. Walt Disney Pictures and Whitaker Entertainment are producing the film, which will be released sometime in 2015.

On October 27, the film was being shot at Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts. It'd also be shot in South Shore and then move to Chatham in December.

In early-December, filming was taken place in the town Marshfield. On December 12, Affleck was spotted playing piano at Symphony Hall in Boston, while they were shooting in Chatham at the time. About the shooting of the film, Affleck wished it to continue, saying, "one of the best."

Casting
On April 17, 2014, Chris Pine was entered negotiations to star in the lead role. On August 6, Casey Affleck was added to the cast. On August 25, Josh Stewart joined the cast of the film to play a sailor aboard one of the oil tankers. On August 26, Graham McTavish was set to play the role of Frank Fauteux in the film. On September 9, Kyle Gallner joined to play the Coast Guard's boat engine-man, and Holliday Grainger also joined the cast. On September 15, Ben Foster joined the film's cast.

Release
On October 29, 2014, Disney announced the film to be released on April 15, 2016. On January 13, 2015, Disney announced that the film has been moved up to October 9, 2015. After several shifts in release dates, the film is scheduled to be released on January 29, 2016. The first trailer was released July 9, 2015.