Sean Astin is proud to have optioned the movie rights for
Erik Larson's best-selling non-fiction book Isaac's Storm. Sean
intends to produce and direct the epic story of the deadliest natural
disaster in US history.September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside
town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for
the U.S. Weather Bureau, failed to grasp the true meaning of the
strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that
morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged by a
monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over
6,000 people in what remains the greatest natural disaster in American
history -- and Isaac Cline found himself the victim of a devastating
personal tragedy.
Thrilling, powerful, and unrelentingly suspenseful, Isaac's Storm
is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets the
uncontrollable forces of nature.
"Gripping . . . the Jaws of hurricane yarns."
-- The Washington Post
The 1900 Storm
The 1900 Galveston Hurricane has long been of interest to
Sean. Two years prior to the publication of Isaac's Storm he
had been developing a screenplay written by Lynne Kelly Messinger entitled
Galveston, which also dealt with the 1900 storm.
