Ron Howard‘s IN THE HEART OF THE SEA Trailer Starring Chris Hemsworth

The first trailer for Ron Howard‘s latest, In the Heart of the Sea, has been released. The film stars Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, and Cillian Murphy as crew members of a whaling vessel that gets destroyed by an 80-foot sperm whale, the inspiration behind Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.

Warner Bros. is releasing In the Heart of the Sea March 13, 2015.

In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story.

“In the Heart of the Sea” reveals the encounter’s harrowing aftermath, as the ship’s surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive. Braving storms, starvation, panic and despair, the men will call into question their deepest beliefs, from the value of their lives to the morality of their trade, as their captain searches for direction on the open sea and his first mate still seeks to bring the great whale down.