Boatload of talent
WHILE talking about his remake of “The Poseidon Adventure” [“Realism at Sea Floats the Director’s Boat,” Jan. 15], director Wolfgang Petersen stresses, “[It’s] a great opportunity to take this damn thing a bit more serious,” as if to say Irwin Allen’s seminal blockbuster somehow got it all wrong.
Allen culled the talents of an Academy Award-winning cast. He hired two of the best visual effects men in the business and had the foresight to employ the talents of emerging artists -- namely, Gene Hackman and John Williams.
I’d say he took the project seriously enough and was rewarded with a much-loved classic that any remake should consider living up to.
RICHARD KILROY
Los Angeles
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