Josh Lucas joining Poseidon cast

Josh Lucas ("Stealth") has joined the cast Wolfgang Petersen's remake of The Poseidon Adventure for Warner Bros. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Lucas will portray a ship-hopping gambler and he was flirting with the role for some time already.

Already cast are Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, Emmy Rossum and Mike Vogel. Andre Braugher is still in negotiations to also join the cast.

The original movie follows ten survivors as they struggle to escape from the ocean liner Poseidon, after the cruise ship is capsized by a huge tidal wave brought on by a submarine-induced earthquake.

Kurt Russell is playing an ex-fireman and mayor who is traveling with his daughter (Emmy Rossum) and her boyfriend (Mike Vogel). Richard Dreyfuss plays a gay man whose relationship breaks up just before departure. If Braugher joins, he would play the ship's captain.

Petersen is producing with Mike Fleiss and Duncan Henderson. Executive producing are Jon Jashni, Kevin Burns and Sheila Allen. Filming is scheduled to begin June 18th, 2005.

Source: THR