If you haven’t seen the Norwegian film The Wave from a few years back you’re missing out on a treat. The film looks at least ten times its budget and gives top Hollywood disaster movies a run for their money. Well, the makers of that are back with a brand new movie titled ‘The Burning Sea’, the first trailer for which has just landed online.
John Andreas Andersen (The Quake) directed the film, which stars Kristine Kujath Thorp, Rolf Kristian Larsen, Anders Baasmo, Bjørn Floberg, Anneke von der Lippe, Ane Skumsvoll, Cengiz Al, and Nils Elias Olsen.
The story is as follows:
In 1969, the Norwegian government announces their discovery of one of the world’s largest oil fields in the neighbouring North Sea, launching a prosperous period of offshore drilling.
Fifty years later, the environmental consequences begin to manifest – a crack has opened on the ocean floor, causing a rig to collapse. A team of researchers, including submarine operator Sofia (Kristine Kujath Thorp), rushes in to search for the missing and assess the cause of the damage. But what they discover is that this is just the start of a possible apocalyptic catastrophe. As rigs are evacuated, Sofia’s partner Stian (Henrik Bjelland) becomes trapped in the depths of the sea, leaving Sofia to come to his rescue.
This one comes to digital platforms from 30th May.
Here’s the trailer.
