Stephen Fenech
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Podcast Appearances
Filming took almost six months.
Coordinating on the ocean, I guess, is hard.
You heard all the horror stories about films like Jaws and Waterworld.
It's hard to film when it's on water.
But, you know, staff costs are low.
It's just three cast members.
There was a novel by Charles Williams called Dead Calm, inspired by the real-life murders of a family on a sailing catch off Florida's coast in 1961.
So the case involved a โ there was a decorated veteran named Julian Harvey who was hired by a family to skipper a boat from Fort Lauderdale to the Bahamas.
The Harvey's wife, the veteran's wife, was also on the boat.
Upon returning from the Bahamas, Harvey went on to murder his wife, hoping to collect an insurance policy and four members of the family, of the Duperault family who hired him.
But he thought one of the โ when he went along, killed everyone, thought one of the daughters had died, but they were asleep below deck.