According to Bloody Disgusting, The Descent, Dog Soldiers and Game Of Thrones director Neil Marshall has approached Lord Of The Rings star Viggo Mortensen to play a character called Henry Clemens in The Last Voyage Of The Demeter.
Inspired by the untold story of the Russian ship in Bram Stoker’s 1897 gothic horror classic Dracula, found abandoned after transporting the titular Count to England, 30 Days Of Night director David Slade was originally attached, along with Prometheus‘ Noomi Rappace and Sir Ben Kingsley, but lingered too long in development hell, has left everything very much in the air.
Compared to Alien in that its about the crew of a ship being picked off one by one by an unknown foe (spoiler alert: Count Dracula), perhaps Viggo will be the ship’s captain, who in the original story tied himself to the ship’s wheel and documented the strange happenings on board…
