Advent Calendar - Day 14 - From "The Age of Sail"
From „The Age of Sail“ -International Anual of the Historic Sailing Ship - Volume 1 - 2002-2003
Edited by Nicholas Tracy.
Amidst feature articles about The Destruction of Admiral Christian’s Fleet, 1795, Naval Surgery in the Time of Nelson, St Vincent: The Rift with Nelson or Lord Cochrane in Chile: Heroism, Plots and Paranoia and authors like Surgeon Admiral Sir James Watt, Peter Trew or Brian Vale to name only a few, I found an article about a soon-to-be filmed movie:
Top Box Office Star To take Lead in Aubrey/Maturin Film Adaptation
Australian actor Russell Crowe ist o take the leading role in the long awaited 20th Century Fox movie of Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin novels.
Filming had already started in Mexico in water tanks originally built fort he film Titanic. Under the working title The Far Side of The World, the film has a reported budget of $135 million.
The film is directed and co-scripted by Peter Weir (Witness, The Truman Show, Gallipoli, Dead Poets Society) and features Crowe (Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind) as Captain Jack Aubrey. Other members of the cast include: Paul Bettany (A Beautiful Mind, A Knight’s Tale as Dr Stephen Maturin, Billy Boyd (The Lord of the Rings) and Ian Mercer (Shackleton, Coronation Street) as Mr Hollar. HMS Rose ist he fictional HMS Surprise and some filming ha staken place on board the HM Bark Endeavour replica.
The action begins during the war of 1812 when Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn. He is on a mission after his own heart - intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. Little do he and Maturin know that disaster lurks in the South Sea in the shape of typhoons, shipwrecks, murder, and criminal insanity.
During a recent visit to HMD Victory, Russell Crowe was presented with a copy of the bestselling volume, Nelson’s Navy (Conway Maritime Press, 1989) by the Age of Sail team to help him prepare fort he role. He said later: ‚I am full of Nelson’s navy at the moment. I’ve loved devouring the books - I can tell you things about ships that I couldn’t have 12 months ago.‘ (The Age, 6.3.2002)
If the film is a commercial success, it could become the first in a series of big screen adaptations of O’Brian’s twenty Aubrey/Maturin novels.
HMS Rose
Displacement 500 tons
Length Overall - 179 feet
Length on Deck - 135 feet
Height of Main Mast - 130 feet
Sail Area - 13,000 sq feet
Draft - 13 feet
Beam - 32 feet
Auxiliary Power - Twin Diesel Engines
Note: The Slashes are not mine
Edited by Nicholas Tracy.
Amidst feature articles about The Destruction of Admiral Christian’s Fleet, 1795, Naval Surgery in the Time of Nelson, St Vincent: The Rift with Nelson or Lord Cochrane in Chile: Heroism, Plots and Paranoia and authors like Surgeon Admiral Sir James Watt, Peter Trew or Brian Vale to name only a few, I found an article about a soon-to-be filmed movie:
Top Box Office Star To take Lead in Aubrey/Maturin Film Adaptation
Australian actor Russell Crowe ist o take the leading role in the long awaited 20th Century Fox movie of Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin novels.
Filming had already started in Mexico in water tanks originally built fort he film Titanic. Under the working title The Far Side of The World, the film has a reported budget of $135 million.
The film is directed and co-scripted by Peter Weir (Witness, The Truman Show, Gallipoli, Dead Poets Society) and features Crowe (Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind) as Captain Jack Aubrey. Other members of the cast include: Paul Bettany (A Beautiful Mind, A Knight’s Tale as Dr Stephen Maturin, Billy Boyd (The Lord of the Rings) and Ian Mercer (Shackleton, Coronation Street) as Mr Hollar. HMS Rose ist he fictional HMS Surprise and some filming ha staken place on board the HM Bark Endeavour replica.
The action begins during the war of 1812 when Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn. He is on a mission after his own heart - intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. Little do he and Maturin know that disaster lurks in the South Sea in the shape of typhoons, shipwrecks, murder, and criminal insanity.
During a recent visit to HMD Victory, Russell Crowe was presented with a copy of the bestselling volume, Nelson’s Navy (Conway Maritime Press, 1989) by the Age of Sail team to help him prepare fort he role. He said later: ‚I am full of Nelson’s navy at the moment. I’ve loved devouring the books - I can tell you things about ships that I couldn’t have 12 months ago.‘ (The Age, 6.3.2002)
If the film is a commercial success, it could become the first in a series of big screen adaptations of O’Brian’s twenty Aubrey/Maturin novels.
HMS Rose
Displacement 500 tons
Length Overall - 179 feet
Length on Deck - 135 feet
Height of Main Mast - 130 feet
Sail Area - 13,000 sq feet
Draft - 13 feet
Beam - 32 feet
Auxiliary Power - Twin Diesel Engines
Note: The Slashes are not mine