Sea Wolf (miniseries)

Sea Wolf is a 2-part television miniseries that aired in 2009, based on the 1904 novel The Sea-Wolf, written by Jack London.

Sea Wolf
Release poster
Based on	The Sea-Wolf by Jack London
Screenplay by	Nigel Williams
Directed by	Michael Barker
Starring	Sebastian Koch Tim Roth Neve Campbell Stephen Campbell Moore
Composer	Richard G. Mitchell
Country of origin	Germany Canada
Original language	English
No. of episodes	2
Production
Producers	Herbert G. Kloiber Rikolt von Gagern Verena von Heeremann
Cinematography	Richard Greatrex
Editor	Dean Soltys
Running time	180 minutes
Budget	$19,000,000
Original release
Release	2009 (2009) – 2009 (2009)

Plot

In a mishap, a young poetry critic Humphrey van Weyden is cast adrift in the open sea. He is picked up by a seal hunting schooner, but his miraculous escape turns into a brutal struggle for survival. The schooner is captained by 'Wolf' Larsen - an authoritarian and harsh captain.

Production

The series was mostly shot in Halifax, Nova Scotia using the Halifax waterfront doubling as San Francisco with shipboard scenes filmed aboard the schooners Alabama,^[1] Silva and the museum ship CSS Acadia at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.^[2]

Cast

• Sebastian Koch as Wolf Larsen
• Tim Roth as Death Larsen
• Neve Campbell as Maud Brewster
• Stephen Campbell Moore as Humphrey Van Weyden
• Andrew Jackson as Johnson
• Tobias Schenke as Leach