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Plot summary
The tug Sea Star loses its uninsured cargo in a typhoon and takes refuge in the eye of the storm to make repairs. There the crew finds a Russian science vessel adrift. Captain Robert Everton tells them the salvage could be worth millions, and the crew believes its troubles are over. Kit Foster, the navigator, and Steve Baker, the chief engineer, doubt it will be that easy.
Cast
- Olga Rzhepetskaya-Retchinas Female Cosmonaut
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Virus (1999)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Universal turned down Chuck Pfarrer's Virus screenplay, so he took the idea to Mike Richardson at Dark Horse Comics. The four-issue miniseries sold 100,000 copies an issue, and when Pfarrer returned with producer Gale Anne Hurd the studio was suddenly keen.
- Director John Bruno disliked Pfarrer's script and nearly passed. Diving to the Titanic wreck with James Cameron aboard the Russian ship Akademik Mstislav Keldysh gave him his angle: make the derelict vessel Russian rather than Chinese and build a hurricane into the plot.
- The open ocean was faked in the James River at Newport News, Virginia: a horizontal bar on the ship was raised and lowered to hide the horizon line so the vessel appeared to be far out at sea.
- Several lines in Virus were improvised. The crewman Richie's blunt outburst about the state of the ship's antenna was simply the actor reacting to how battered the real Vandenberg looked.
