Frank Marshall is best known as a producer who’s worked with Spielberg on everything from Raiders Of The Lost Ark to Jurassic Park, as well as putting his name to the likes of The Bourne Identity and The Sixth Sense.
However he’s also a director, who’s made the likes of Arachnophobia, Alive, Congo and Eight Below. Now he’s planning to step back behind the camera for the first time since 2006, as THR reports that he has signed on to direct the shipwreck drama The Longest Night for Paramount Pictures.
This Longest Night is based on a December 2008 GQ article by Sean Flynn. It tells the true story of an Alaskan trawler that sank on Easter Sunday in 2008 180 miles off the Alaskan coast in 6,000-foot deep waters. Depiste facing nearly insurmountable odds in the ice cold water, 42 of the 47 crew were rescued by the Coast Guard.
Jonathan Lemkin (Jonathan Lemkin, Lethal Weapon 4) wrote the screenplay. It’s not known when it will shoot.