Walt Disney Pictures are currently in negotiations with RED and forthcoming R.I.P.D. director Robert Schwentke to helm a big-screen adaptation of Casey Sherman and Michael J. Tougia’s 2009 novel, ‘The Finest Hours: The True Story Behind the US Coast Guard’s Most Daring Rescue’.
The project, expected to have the simpler title of THE FINEST HOURS, has a script coming from Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson. They’ve adapted the best-selling non-fiction book set in 1952 in which a number of the United States Coast Guard risked their lives in an attempt at a dramatic rescue when a pair of oil tankers collided off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, during an epic raging storm.
We’ll keep you posted as the production comes together.
Source: Deadline
