“In doing this, they are forced by circumstance into an unholy alliance with Romer Treece, a Bermudian treasure expert, recluse and living legend. Theirs is the quest to uncover what is down in The Deep, why it’s there and get it up. David and Gail, our young newlyweds, discover a Spanish treasure so valuable as to defy logic. Lying beneath the iron wreck of the ‘Goliath’ is something else. “They stumble headlong onto a long-hidden cache of illegal drugs. They are swept up in a whirpool of danger and intrigue when exploring the shipwreck of ‘The Goliath’, a merchant ship sunk in a hurricane in 1943. ” … ‘The Deep’ was the story of a young couple honeymooning in Bermuda. Guber, then 34, found what he was looking for.Īfter reading the pre-publication galley proofs of “The Deep” - Peter Benchley’s follow-up novel to “Jaws”, a pop culture phenomenom both as a book and a movie - he engineered a $500,000 deal to acquire the film rights. He was looking for the sort of tent-pole project which would establish his reputation - and do what the industry calls boffo box office - in hyper-competitive Hollywood. It was a case of throwing his money in the water, a multi-milion dollar motion picture budget in this instance.įirst-time producer Peter Guber, a former Columbia Pictures executive, had just launched his own independent production company.
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