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Article: Remake floats their boat.(Warner Bros. plans remake of 'The Poseidon Adventure')(Brief Article)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- June 6, 2005
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The first thesps--Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss and Emmy Rossum--have been cast in Wolfgang Petersen's big-budget remake of "The Poseidon Adventure" for Warner Bros. Production begins June 18.
Russell will play an ex-fireman and pol who is traveling with his daughter (Rossum) and her boyfriend (Mark Vogel). Dreyfuss will play a gay man who has just been dumped.
Mark Protosevich and Akiva Goldsman penned the screenplay based on Paul Gallico's original novel and the first "Poseidon" pic.
Petersen is producing with reality TV guru Mike Fleiss ("The Bachelor") and Duncan Henderson ("Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone").
WB has ...