Peter Weir To Direct Shadow Divers Movie

Posted Nov 30th 2006 11:13AM by Bill Reals
Filed under: Media, Books, Beginners, Experts

We've talked about Shadow Divers before; it's the first real mass media publication that shines a light of the fringe sport of deep wreck exploration. The best-selling book chronicles the story of two East Coast wreck divers who discover an unknown Nazi Submarine and their quest to identify it.

The book is being made into a movie and the last I heard it was Ridley Scott, who directed Blade Runner, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down and the ground-breaking 1984 Apple Macintosh commercial. He's one of the best directors out there and usually makes very visually stunning motion pictures, so I was excited to see such a high profile director attached to the project.

Today, it looks like Ridley Scott is out and Peter Weir, who directed Witness, Master and Commander and a personal favorite of mine, The Year of Living Dangerously is now at the director's helm.

Given the talent they are throwing at this film, it has a chance to be amazingly great. And thank god they didn't have Uwe Boll do it.

Thanks to Divester reader Craig for the heads up.

Reader Comments

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1. That is great news. I love Peter Weir. Other than the Year of Living Dangerously, Gallipoli is one of my favorites by him.

I listed to Shadow Divers on tape and loved it. This will undoubtedly be a great film, if not a great movie.

Posted at 5:42PM on Nov 30th 2006 by Felipe

2. Changing directors will undoubtedly change the "tenor" of the film. With Scott, the movie would likely have been more action; with Weir onboard, the movie suddenly became more psychological. Either way, I'm sure the movie will be great.

Posted at 9:57AM on Dec 1st 2006 by Willy

3. Peter Weir, yeah, okay, no problem.

Posted at 11:18AM on Dec 2nd 2006 by Marshall Karp

4. Peter Weir, great news! Scott is a talented director, but if it isn't in the script, it isn't on the screen. Word from John Chatterton is Fox wanted Scott to devote himself to Shadow Divers exclusivley, but Scott wasn't willing to put aside other projects. Weir does one thing at a time and does it very well. Fox has Oscar hopes for the picture, as evidened by the fact that it's an "in house" Fox project, not farmed out to another production company.

Posted at 7:47PM on Dec 30th 2006 by kevin

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