Trailer For Nicolas Cage's WWII Thriller USS INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF COURAGE
Remember that horrific war 1954 WWII story that Quint recounts in Steven Spielberg's Jaws about the USS Indianapolis? It involved the ship being sunk by the Japanese, leaving 1100 of its crew stranded in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for a horde of shark to feed on. When I first heard that story in the film, it absolutely terrified me.
Well, that story is finally getting its own movie. It's called USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage, and Nicolas Cage plays Capt. Charles Butler McVay, who was sent on a top secret mission with his crew to deliver the parts of the first atomic bomb. It was on the way back from delivering those parts when they were attacked by Japanese submarines.
Because the ship was without an escort, the Indianapolis was not reported missing until four days later. Of 1,196 crewmen aboard, approximately 300 went down with the ship, while the rest faced exposure, dehydration, saltwater poisoning and shark attacks as they waited for assistance. Only 317 sailors survived, and McVay was court-martialed, then exonerated more than half a century later.
We've got the first trailer for the film for you to watch today thanks to Variety and it looks solid! I've been fascinated in this story since I first heard about it in Jaws and I'm excited to see this how this film brings it to life.
The film was directed by Mario Van Peebles (Empire, Once Upon a Time), it features Tom Sizemore, and Thomas Jane co-stars as the pilot Chuck Gwinn, who spotted the crew of the USS Indianapolis on the fifth day after it sunk. I also included the clip from Jaws in which Quint tell his own version of the story.
