Chris Pine hasn’t had a huge amount of luck expanding his movie success beyond the Star Trek franchise. Most recently his attempt to kickstart the Jack Ryan movies faltered on its it release. However he’s certainly not giving up, with THR reporting that he’s now in talks to star in Disney’s Coast Guard drama, The Finest Hours.
Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (The Fighter) are writing the script, which is adapted from a book by Casey Sherman and Michael J. Tougias. The tells the true story of two oil tankers that got caught in the middle of a vicious storm off the coast of New England in 1952.
Things got so bad that the ships were split in two, with the crew members getting thrown into the sea. It was up to the Coast Guard to rescue them, even though conditions were horrifically dangerous.
Robert Schwentke was previously attached to direct last May, but when he was offered the Divergent sequel Insurgent, he decided to make that instead. Now Craig Gillespie, who’s one of Disney’s new favourites due to his work on the upcoming baseball movie Million Dollar Arm, is now set to direct.