Originally published January 26, 2018. Updated January 25, 2018.
Oscar winner Alicia Vikander is set to follow up her role in March’s Tomb Raider by heading underwater for director Wim Wenders’ romantic thriller Submergence, and thanks to Empire we’ve got a new image from the film; check it out here…
James More is a water engineer who is taken hostage in Somalia by Jihadist fighters who suspect that he is a British spy. Danielle ‘Danny’ Flinders is a bio-mathematician working on a deep sea diving project to support her theory of the origin of life on the planet. James and Danny only met a few weeks earlier, in an isolated hotel on the Atlantic coast, where they were both preparing for their dangerous missions. The last thing they had in mind was falling in love, yet that is what’s happening to them: they recognize in each other the love of their lives. Except they’re now worlds apart, unable to reach each other. As Danny descends to the ocean floor, she doesn’t even know if James is still alive.
Submergence is set for release on April 13th in the US and features a cast that includes Alicia Vikander, James McAvoy, Alexander Siddig, Reda Kateb and Mohammed Hakeemshady.
