Sam Worthington [Avatar, Terminator Salvation] is set to star in Drift, report Variety. The film is a fictionalized account of the rise of the Australian surfing culture and industry in the early 1970s, with this tale of two Margaret River brothers and their global ambitious standing in for several stories that unfolded simultaneously on beaches around Australia.
"Drift combines serious Australian talent both in front of and behind the camera with [co-helmers] Morgan O'Neill and Ben Nott, together with Sam Worthington who has been in some of the highest grossing international films of the last few years," stated Screen Australia's Fiona Cameron.
Cameron continued: "The unique combination of surfing and performance expertise gives 'Drift' the potential to be the first character-driven action movie set in the surfing world since Kathryn Bigelow's 'Point Break."
