The actor and his co-stars tell Newsweek about the challenges of playing real-life commercial divers on a high stakes mission.

“Last Breath” continues an ongoing trend of fictionalized remakes of the events covered in a prior documentary. This movie uses the 2019 documentary of the same name as its basis. Both films were directed by Alex Parkinson, who uses real-life footage of the people involved during the closing credits of this fictionalized version.

A routine deep sea diving mission in the North Sea goes terribly wrong when a young diver is stranded some 300 feet below the surface in the new film “Last Breath.”

Woody Harrelson, known for his acting and activism, is sailing into theaters this weekend in the powerful Last Breath. The movie tells the true story of a deep sea diver who was left without oxygen on the floor of the ocean after a storm disrupted routine maintenance work he was performing.