The new trailer for In the Heart of the Sea was released today and it looks beautifully shot. Ron Howard, the Academy Award winning director of A Beautiful Mind, directs the action adventure "In the Heart of the Sea,"  which follows the adventures of the shipmates who chased the real life Moby Dick.

Howard based the movie on Nathaniel Philbrick's best-selling book "In the Heart of the Sea." The film will explore the true story of the ship "the Essex," which inspired the book Moby Dick.

In the Heart of the Sea opens on March 13, 2015 in theatres and IMAX. The movie will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, and in select territories by Village Roadshow Pictures.

"In the Heart of the Sea" stars Chris Hemsworth (The Avengers, Rush), as Owen Chase, first mate on the ship; Benjamin Walker (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) will play the inexperienced captation George Pollard; Cillian Murphy (The Dark Knight Rises) plays second mate Matthew Joy; Ben Whishaw (Skyfall) play Herman Melville, who investigated the story 30 years after it happened and turned it into the book everyone claims to have read.

 Tom Holland from  The Impossible will play Tom Nickerson, a young sailor on the boat and Brendan Gleeson from Edge of Tomorrow will play Nickerson 30 years later.  Spanish actor Jordi Mollá of Riddick is on board another ship which has already seen the trouble and tries to warn the Essex.

Howard directed from a screenplay by Charles Leavitt ("Blood Diamond"), story by Charles Leavitt and Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver ("Rise of the Planet of the Apes"), based on the book In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick, winner of the 2000 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

According to the official synopsis, " In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.  The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.  But that told only half the story.  "In the Heart of the Sea" reveals the encounter's harrowing aftermath, as the ship's surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive.  Braving storms, starvation, panic and despair, the men will call into question their deepest beliefs, from the value of their lives to the morality of their trade, as their captain searches for direction on the open sea and his first mate still seeks to bring the great whale down."