Four years after its cinema premiere, Kristen Stewart’s Underwater will be available to stream for free on Tubi. It was announced that Underwater will join the free streaming platform on September 1st.
With Stewart in the lead role, Underwater Directed by William Eubank, the screenplay was written by Brian Duffield and Adam Cozad. The film also starred Vincent Cassel (Westworld), Jessica Henwick (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Crime Thriller), John Gallagher Jr. (10 Cloverfield Street), Mamoudou Athie (Jurassic World Domination) and TJ Miller (Dead Pool).
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Underwater is set in a drilling rig on the sea floor. The story follows a group of workers who find a way to survive when the facility is attacked by underwater creatures. Stewart, who plays mechanical engineer Norah Price, has spoken about how difficult it was to film her scenes for the movie, although she clarified that it was the challenges of the role that attracted her to the project.
“It was so scary and so horrifying. It wasn’t a fun scare. It was fucking scary,” Stewart explained, according to Variety. “I was just scared. I was claustrophobic and couldn’t handle it. But this was a fucking hellhole for a million other reasons.”
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The box office hit for Underwater was not good. The film grossed less than $41 million, making it a flop with its budget of around $60 million. Critics were not particularly kind to the film, as it has a mixed Rotten Tomatoes approval rating of 48%, although its audience score is described as fresh at 60%. Although it is somewhat polarizing among critics and moviegoers, many fans of the film see Underwater as underrated, as he feels he doesn’t get the recognition he deserves. Whether that fanbase will ever get the film a sequel remains to be seen, but Eubank remains hopeful.
Will “Underwater” get a sequel?
“We always talk about it. I hope we get to do it one day, I really hope one day,” Eubank recently told ComicBook.com. “We built so many cool things in this movie that you just don’t see, from all the excavators that bring up all the stuff they mine to the surface to these huge, almost drone-like supertankers that are down there. There’s so much cool shit, man. I hope we get to do it one day, because the world is really big and really fun. It’s hard. Anytime you go underwater, it’s expensive, so who knows? We’ll see what happens one day.”
Breathing new life into the film and making it available to stream for free can only help. Underwater grow its fan base and potentially improve the 2020 film’s chances of getting the sequel Eubank has long hoped for. Underwater Streaming on Tubi will still begin on September 1st.
Source: Tubi
Underwater
A crew of marine researchers working for a deep-sea drilling company try to reach safety after a mysterious earthquake destroys their deep-sea research and drilling facility on the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
- director
- William Eubank
- Release date
- 10 January 2020
- Pour
- Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, Mamoudou Athie
- Duration
- 1 hour 35 minutes
