Screenplay: | Nigel Williams |
Director: | Michael Barker |
Starring: | Sebastian Koch Tim Roth Neve Campbell Stephen Campbell Moore |
Composer: | Richard G. Mitchell |
Country: | Germany Canada |
Language: | English |
Num Episodes: | 2 |
Producer: | Herbert G. Kloiber Rikolt von Gagern Verena von Heeremann |
Cinematography: | Richard Greatrex |
Editor: | Dean Soltys |
Runtime: | 180 minutes |
Budget: | $19,000,000 |
Sea Wolf is a 2-part television miniseries that aired in 2009, based on the 1904 novel The Sea-Wolf, written by Jack London.
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.
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]