He doesn’t share what he saw in it with the others, but they figure it out soon enough. Old Thomas is the first to look in the chest. The cast away flipped out that they were taking his chest. Sending the new guy down to check on him rouses the “drowned” man to a fury, and only Donald’s desperation saves him. A Nordic looking brute is washed up with it. Their routine is shattered the moment a rowboat washes up in the rocks. The two old hands josh the new guy as they pluck dinner out of the crabs in the surf, check the anenometer (wind gauge) to log the weather conditions and struggle with the balky radio (the time setting has been changed from the real disappearance) that works a fraction of the time. James (Butler) is the experienced man, the one with the family, and a sense of humor. Connor Swindells (sharp, naive) is young Donald, the new guy learning “the ropes.” And he’s to learn the care and maintenance of the light, maintenance that includes handling deadly quicksilver that was used to lubricate the rotating Fresnel lens.
Veteran character actor Peter Mullan is Thomas, the widowed senior man at their remote station. Introduce a little gold into the equation, and you’ve got “The Treasure of Sierra Madre” at sea, on an island - a tale of greed, treachery, mistrust and bloody violence. “The Vanishing” leans hard on a very conventional solution, a plot that throws the three men into contact with a treasure. Three Outer Hebrides lighthouse keepers disappeared in 1900, leaving behind no clue as to what might have become of them. He settles nicely into a supporting role in this period piece, a thriller that speculates on a famous disappearance among the lighthouse keepers of the Flannan Isles. Gerard Butler hasn’t made a Scottish ensemble piece like “The Vanishing” since long before he saddled up on the “Olympus has Fallen” franchise and began collecting “Den of Thieves” checks (he’s doing a sequel to that, too.). Whatever trap he or she has fallen into, whatever their overhead has become that drives the sorts of payday pictures they make, the good ones are never more than one expectations-defying role away from reminding you why they seemed special, back in the beginning. The Vanishing will be in select US theaters starting in January 2019.One thing you learn in this business, never write a good actor off. The Vanishing was directed by Kristoffer Nyholm ( The Killing, The Enfield Haunting) from a script written by Celyn Jones ( Set Fire to the Stars) and Joe Bone ( Castles in the Sky) What follows is a tense battle for survival, fed by isolation, paranoia and greed, leading three honest men down a path to destruction. As they settle into their normal quiet routine, something unexpected, potentially life-changing occurs – they stumble upon gold. On an uninhabited island 20 miles from the rugged Scottish coast, three lighthouse keepers arrive for their 6-week shift.
I especially like that the film stars Butler and Mullan.
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I enjoy stories like this and this movie looks like a solid, well-made film. The three actors take on the role of lighthouse keepers who end up coming across some gold and this leads them on a deadly journey of survival. The film is based on a true story of an unsolved local legend known as the Flannan Isle mystery. The film stars Gerard Butler ( London Has Fallen, 300), Peter Mullan ( Session 9, Braveheart), and newcomer Connor Swindells. Saban Films has released a trailer for a fantastic-looking psychological thriller called The Vanishing.
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