Will Crowe Survive The Sahara?

It’s hard to beat a good survival yarn.  The desert survival thriller is a close second after the old favourite, the wilderness survival thriller.  It seems that Russell Crowe has signed up for the former.  It seems that Crow will be shipwrecked in Africa, and face trouble…

“In 1815, an American brig, the Commerce, was wrecked on the desolate coast fringing the Western Sahara. Starving and dying of thirst, its 12 man crew were captured, stripped, beaten and enslaved, kept barely alive on camel blood and urine. Five were never to be seen again, the others sold to a succession of tribesmen who bought and bartered each man for as little as a tattered blanket.

An Arab trader, Sidi Hamet, then bought Captain James Riley (Crowe) and some of his men, aiming only to sell them on at a profit. By impassioned advocacy and sheer bluff, Riley convinced Hamet that he would receive a far greater ransom from a European consul — that in truth existed only in Riley’s imagination — who was supposedly based in a Moroccan port a thousand miles to the north. What followed was an epic, terrifying and, for some, ultimately fateful trek across one of the most extreme environments on earth.”

The film is titled In Sand And Blood, more can be found via TheWrap.