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When director Wolfgang Petersen wanted to film a 200-foot wave capsizing an ll00-foot cruise ship for the remake of the classic 1972 disaster movie Poseidon, his visual effects supervisor, Boyd Shermis, contacted Industrial Light &Magic. Petersen had previously worked with ILM on The perfect Storm, which called for a big wave as well, but for Warner Bros.' Poseidon, he wanted something unique.
"Shermis said [Petersen] wanted to knock over the boat in a graphic way, this time using waves approaching the boat," says Kim Libreri, visual effects supervisor at ILM. "He wanted to build the shot in a way that hasn't been built before: He wanted a dynamic, destructive ...