''The Boys in the Boat'' is an upcoming American

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...

directed by George Clooney, based on the 2013 non-fiction novel of the same name by Daniel James Brown, starring

Callum Turner Callum Robilliard Turner (born 15 February 1990) is a British actor and model. He is known for his roles as Theseus Scamander in '' Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald'' and '' Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore'', Bill Rohan in ...

Plot

The non-fiction novel describes the

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crew that represented the United States in the Men's eight at the

1936 Summer Olympic games The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp ...

in Berlin, including the coaches, boatbuilder

George Pocock Admiral Sir George Pocock or Pococke, KB (6 March 1706 – 3 April 1792) was a British officer of the Royal Navy. Family Pocock was born in Thames Ditton in Surrey, the son of Thomas Pocock, a chaplain in the Royal Navy. His great grandfa ...

, and the working class student athletes involved, especially rower Joe Rantz, who was effectively abandoned by his family and left to fend for himself at a young age.

Cast

as Joe Rantz *

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as Al Ulbrickson *

Jack Mulhern John Francis "Jack" Mulhern (July 18, 1927 – September 19, 2007) was an American ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sp ...

Sam Strike Samuel Harry Strike (born 18 January 1994) is an English actor. Life and career Strike was born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. He starred in two revival series of CBBC's ''M.I. High'' as Dan Morgan from 2013–2014. In 2014, Strike guest starred ...

* Peter Guinness as George Yeomans Pocock * Luke Slattery * Sam Williamson * Thomas Elms *

Tom Varey Tom Varey is a British actor. He is known for his roles in '' Pond Life'', ''No Offence'' and '' Ridley Road''. Early life Varey grew up in Mossley, Greater Manchester. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art for three years from 2011 ...

* Bruce Herbelin-Earle * Wil Coban * Sam Bishop * Ian Kramer * Luke Roberts * Ben Solomons * Joel Phillimore * Holly McGee * Hadley Robinson *

Courtney Henggeler Courtney Healy Henggeler (born December 11, 1978) is an American actress known for her starring role as Amanda LaRusso in the Netflix comedy-drama television series ''Cobra Kai''. She is also known as playing the adult version of Sheldon Coope ...

as Hazel Ulbrickson *

James Wolk James Wolk (born March 22, 1985) is an American actor. He is known for his starring roles in the CBS comedy series ''The Crazy Ones'' (2013–2014), the AMC period drama series ''Mad Men'' (2013–2014), the CBS drama thriller series '' Zoo'' (201 ...

as Tom Bolles *

Chris Diamantopoulos Chris Diamantopoulos (born May 9, 1975) is a Canadian actor. He played Russ Hanneman in the HBO series '' Silicon Valley'' and starred in the film '' The Three Stooges'', and the TV series ''Good Girls Revolt''. He currently voices Mickey Mouse ...

Royal Brougham Royal Brewer Brougham (September 17, 1894 – October 30, 1978) was one of the longest tenured employees of a U.S. newspaper in history, working for the ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'' in Seattle, Washington, primarily as sports editor, for 68 year ...

* Nick Tajan as German Coxswain * Jan Stratmann as German Oarsman * Chris Wilson Hermann Göring * George Crooks as Star Rower

Production

On March 3, 2011,

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acquired the film rights to the novel with

Kenneth Branagh Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (; born 10 December 1960) is a British actor and filmmaker. Branagh trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and has served as its president since 2015. He has won an Academy Award, four BAFTAs (plus ...

set to direct and

Donna Gigliotti Donna Gigliotti is an American film producer. She is best known for producing ''Shakespeare in Love'', ''Hidden Figures'', ''Silver Linings Playbook'' and '' The Reader''. Gigliotti started her professional career as an assistant to Martin Sco ...

and Judy Hofflund producing. In October 2018,

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(the successor of The Weinstein Company) contracted with

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to distribute the film worldwide. In March 2020, it was announced that George Clooney would direct and produce with

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and Mark L. Smith writing the script. On November 1, 2021, it was announced that

would portray Joe Rantz. In February 2022, additional casting was announced, with

and Hadley Robinson amongst the additions.

and

would join in March, and

would join in April. Filming began in March 2022, and was due to take place at Winnersh Film Studios in Berkshire, as well as in

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and

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, nowhere near the still standing original shell house on the University of Washington campus.

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