Adam DiMarco, the Canadian actor who broke out in the second season of The White Lotus, is attached to star in Dark Ocean, a drama that doubles as the first feature from Icelandic production company Glassriver. His earlier credits include Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen and Overcompensating.
He will appear opposite two actors already announced: Baltasar Kormákur, whose credits include Everest, Adrift and 2 Guns, and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, known for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and Severance. Kormákur plays Captain Andri. Ólafsson plays a character named Höddi. More cast names are due soon.
A fishing trawler in the North Atlantic
DiMarco plays Hákon, a 28-year-old Canadian-born Icelander who has lived in Iceland for just three years. His girlfriend is expecting their first child, and he signs onto a North Atlantic trawler for his first long voyage at sea, hoping to provide for them. Life aboard is much rougher than he expected. He has to cope with the ocean and with the crew, in a harsh world with rules of its own. As tensions climb and lives are at risk, he faces the psychological cost of survival in an isolated, hyper-masculine setting shaped by grief, silence and toxic masculinity.
Director Baldvin Z, a Glassriver co-owner, explained the casting. “I’ve been looking for Hákon for a long time,” he said. “He needed to be someone who could walk into this brutal world of men as an outsider and allow us to experience it through his eyes. Adam has a vulnerability and warmth that immediately drew me to him, but there’s also something unpredictable underneath, a quiet strength that feels completely right for Hákon.” He added that the film is about belonging and about the systems that shape young men into the men they become.
Who is making it
Baldvin Z, whose credits include Black Sands and Case, also produces. Matthías Tryggvi Haraldsson, who wrote Síðustu dagar Sæunnar and Griðastaður/Refuge, wrote the screenplay. Guðgeir “Gucci” Arngrímsson, producer of Odd Fish and From Iceland to Eden, represents Glassriver as a producer. Christine Haebler, who worked on Monkey Man and French Exit, produces for Terminal City Pictures, the Canadian co-producer. Rocket Science handles worldwide sales.
Valdís Óskarsdóttir, the editor of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Kursk/The Command, is on board, as is Canadian composer Anne Nikitin, whose credits include Scoop and American Animals.
Haebler said: “Projects like Dark Ocean don’t come along very often. It’s an honour to be working with this exceptional cast and the talented Glassriver team.”
Filming is due to begin in March 2027, in Iceland and in St. John’s, in the Canadian province of Newfoundland.
Sources
- ‘White Lotus’ Breakout Adam DiMarco Attached to Star in Glassriver’s First Feature ‘Dark Ocean’ (Exclusive)
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