Ghost Ship (2002)

Country of Origin: USA / Australia
Year of Production: 2002
Running Times:
Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound: Dolby Digital

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Dark Castle Entertainment / Ghost Ship Films Pty Ltd / NPV Entertainment / Village Roadshow Productions / Warner Bros.
Executive Producers: Bruce Berman, Steve Richards
Producers: Gilbert Adler, Joel Silver, Robert Zemeckis
Co-Producers: Susan Levin, Richard Mirisch
Associate Producer: Stephen Jones
Unit Production Manager: Stephen Jones
Production Coordinator: Louisa Kors
Assistant Production Coordinator: Melaini Lewis

SCRIPT
Script: Mark Hanlon, John Pogue
Story: Mark Hanlon

DIRECTION
Director: Steve Beck
2nd Unit Director: Ian 'Thistle' Thorburn
1st Assistant Director: Colin Fletcher

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Gale Tattersall
2nd Unit Director of Photography: Ian 'Thistle' Thorburn
Wescam Operator: John Trapman
Color Timer: Jeff Smithwick
Telecine Dailies Colourist: Trish Cahill

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Roger Barton
Assistant Editors: Elana Joy Livneh, Robert Malina

MUSIC
Music: John Frizzell

SOUND
Boom Operator: Rod Conder
Production Sound Mixer: Paul 'Salty' Brincat
Supervising Sound Editor: Richard Adrian
1st Assistant Sound Editor: Christopher Alba
Sound Assistant: Nicole Miller

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Supervisor: Nikki Gooley
Costume Designer: Margot Wilson
Costume Designer (Vancouver): Janice MacIsaac

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Coordinator: Brian Cox

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Photon VFX
Visual Effects Supervisor: Dale Duguid
Visual Effects Production Manager: Kirsten Fazio
Effects Animation Supervisor: Eyal Erez
Miniatures Visual Effects Director of Photography: Steve Newman
Senior Digital Compositor: Patrick Bergeron

Photon
Digital Effects Production Manager: Kent Boswell

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Graham 'Grace' Walker
Art Director: Richard Hobbs
Assistant Art Director: Charles McGuinness
Set Decorator: Beverley Dunn
Storyboard Artist: Graeme Callander

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Accountants: Liam Banks, Tim O'Connor
Assistant to Producer and Director: Justin Brace
Production Secretary: Suzanne Evans-Booth
Production Assistants: Kristine Fraser, Kayne Tumahai
Staff Production Coordinator for Warner Brothers: Kelly Helstrom
Research / Clearances: Miriam Johnson
Unit Publicist: Fiona Searson

LOCATIONS
Locations: Queensland, Australia

CASTING
Casting: Lora Kennedy

CAST
Julianna Margulies (Epps)
Gabriel Byrne (Murphy)
Ron Eldard (Dodge)
Isaiah Washington (Greer)
Desmond Harrington (Ferriman)
Alex Dimitriades (Santos)
Karl Urban (Munder)
Emily Browning (Katie)
Francesca Rettondini (Francesca)

PLOT SUMMARY

A salvage team discovers a cruise liner drifting in the Bering Sea that has supposedly been missing since 1953. The crew are soon trapped inside the liner, under attack from an agent of Satan that is gathering souls...

Argentina
Theatrical Distributor: Warner Bros.

Netherlands
Theatrical Distributor: Warner Bros.

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Warner Bros.

USA
Rating: R (for strong violence / gore, language and sexuality)

TIMELINE

2002
January
24: USA - filming begins

April
24: USA - filming ends

October
25: USA - theatrical release

December
5: Netherlands - theatrical release
6: Iceland - theatrical release
26: Argentina - theatrical release

2003
January
1: France - theatrical release
10: UK - theatrical release
23: Germany - theatrical release
24: Austria - theatrical release
26: Belgium - theatrical release

March
6: Czech Republic - theatrical release
13: Russia - theatrical release

POSTER TAGS

Sea Evil

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Chimera - working title

KEYWORDS

remakes; ships; monsters

Kevin Lyons; George Waring