'Poseidon' trailer debuts online

See Kurt Russell, Emmy Rossum, Josh Lucas and Richard Dreyfuss get very wet indeed in the big budget remake.

Dec 15 2005

The trailer for Wolfgang Petersen's eagerly anticipated disaster film 'Poseidon' has hit the net.

Based on Ronald Neame's 1972 classic 'The Poseidon Adventure', the remake stars Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, Emmy Rossum and Richard Dreyfuss, and the film's official site describes the plot as follows:

When a rogue wave capsizes a luxury cruise ship in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, a small group of survivors find themselves unlikely allies in a battle for their lives. Preferring to test the odds alone, career gambler John Dylan (Josh Lucas) ignores the captain’s orders (Andre Braugher) to wait below for possible rescue and sets out to find his own way to safety. What begins as a solo mission soon draws others as Dylan is followed by a desperate father (Kurt Russell) searching for his daughter (Emmy Rossum) and her fiancé (Mike Vogel), a young couple who hours before couldn’t summon the courage to tell him they were engaged and now face much graver challenges. Along the way they are joined by a single mother (Jacinda Barrett) and her wise-beyond-his-years son (Jimmy Bennett), an anxious stowaway (Mia Maestro) and a despondent fellow passenger (Richard Dreyfuss) who boarded the ship not sure he wanted to live but now knows he doesn’t want to die. Determined to fight their way to the surface, the group sets off through the disorienting maze of twisted steel in the upside-down wreckage. As the unstable vessel rapidly fills with water each must draw on skills and strengths they didn’t even know they possessed, fighting against time for their own survival and for each other.

The film is due to hit UK screens on June 2, but to see some seriously spectacular boat-capsizing action now, click here.