Sea Wolf (miniseries)

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Sea Wolf
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Based on The Sea-Wolf
1904 novel
by Jack London
Screenplay by Nigel Williams
Directed by Michael Barker
Starring Sebastian Koch
Tim Roth
Neve Campbell
Stephen Campbell Moore
Composer Richard G. Mitchell
Country of originGermany
Canada
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes2
Production
Producers Herbert G. Kloiber
Rikolt von Gagern
Verena von Heeremann
Cinematography Richard Greatrex
EditorDean Soltys
Running time180 minutes
Budget$19,000,000
Release
Original release2009 (2009)

Sea Wolf is a 2-part TV miniseries aired in 2009, adapting the 1904 novel The Sea-Wolf , written by Jack London.

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Plot

In a mishap, a young poetry critic Humphrey van Weyden is cast adrift in the open sea. He is picked up by a seal hunting schooner, but his miraculous escape turns into a brutal struggle for survival. The schooner is captained by 'Wolf' Larsen - an authoritarian and harsh captain.

Production

The series was mostly shot in Halifax, Nova Scotia using the Halifax waterfront doubling as San Francisco with shipboard scenes filmed aboard the schooners Alabama, [1] Silva and the museum ship CSS Acadia at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. [2]

Cast

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References

  1. "Nachbauten (Repliken) historischer Großsegler" . Retrieved 3 Mar 2023.
  2. "CSS Acadia Filmography", Maritime Museum of the Atlantic