Josh Lucas Talks Poseidon And Glory Road

Exclusive: All the news on Petersen's adventure remake


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Shooting has been underway for a couple of weeks already on Wolfgang Petersen's remake of classic disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure, but we cornered one of the stars, Josh Lucas, to tell us more about it. And once we applied the thumbscrews, he proved quite willing to talk about their take on Poseidon, as well as his leading role in basketball biopic Glory Road. But first, Poseidon. Why remake one of the best-known disaster movies of the '70s? "I would say it's a complete regenesis of that idea. It's quite different, and I think that's one of the things that makes this particular movie ring true. The story is exactly the same story, in the sense that a cruise ship gets hit by a rogue wave and flips over, but every single character is entirely different, and the structure of the movie is very different." "The technology has moved on. You watch the original, and they jump over a chair like they're risking their lives, because they don't have the technology or the money in that film to do anything. It's actually not a bad film; it's quite interesting in certain ways. But the technology that's available

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