The actor and his co-stars tell Newsweek about the challenges of playing real-life commercial divers on a high stakes mission.

“Last Breath” continues an ongoing trend of fictionalized remakes of the events covered in a prior documentary. This movie uses the 2019 documentary of the same name as its basis. Both films were directed by Alex Parkinson, who uses real-life footage of the people involved during the closing credits of this fictionalized version.

A routine deep sea diving mission in the North Sea goes terribly wrong when a young diver is stranded some 300 feet below the surface in the new film “Last Breath.”

Woody Harrelson ( Zombieland) portrays Allcock while Simu Liu ( Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) and Finn Cole ( Peaky Blinders) tackle Yuasa and Lemons, respectively. Cliff Curtis ( Avatar: The Way of Water) and Mark Bonnar ( Napoleon) co-star.

Woody Harrelson, known for his acting and activism, is sailing into theaters this weekend in the powerful Last Breath. The movie tells the true story of a deep sea diver who was left without oxygen on the floor of the ocean after a storm disrupted routine maintenance work he was performing.