Lying beneath the iron wreck of the ‘Goliath’ is something else. “They stumble headlong onto a long-hidden cache of illegal drugs.
They are swept up in a whirpool of danger and intrigue when exploring the shipwreck of ‘The Goliath’, a merchant ship sunk in a hurricane in 1943.
” … ‘The Deep’ was the story of a young couple honeymooning in Bermuda. Guber, then 34, found what he was looking for.Īfter reading the pre-publication galley proofs of “The Deep” - Peter Benchley’s follow-up novel to “Jaws”, a pop culture phenomenom both as a book and a movie - he engineered a $500,000 deal to acquire the film rights. He was looking for the sort of tent-pole project which would establish his reputation - and do what the industry calls boffo box office - in hyper-competitive Hollywood. It was a case of throwing his money in the water, a multi-milion dollar motion picture budget in this instance.įirst-time producer Peter Guber, a former Columbia Pictures executive, had just launched his own independent production company.
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