The first teaser poster for Dark Tide, an action-thriller starring Halle Berry (X-Men trilogy) and Olivier Martinez (S.W.A.T.) has appeared online.

As you can probably tell, sharks are involved. It’s been roughly 8 years since we last saw sharks on the big screen, with Deep Blue Sea in 1999 and Open Water in 2003, but they seem to be making a comeback recently with Relatively Media’s Shark Night 3D hitting in September, and now Dark Tide.

Diving instructor Kate Mathieson (Halle Berry), who had a near-fatal encounter with a Great White Shark, returns to deep waters with a small group of marine biologist and tourists. Things turn to the worse when they get shipwrecked on a small rocky island surrounded by Great White Sharks and must find a way to escape.

In an interview with The Wrap last year writer Amy Sorlie (a journalist and accomplished shark diver) said:

“I tried to keep it very authentic. A lot of shark movies tend to be, for lack of a better word, “cheesy.” I really wanted to be respectful of these animals and set a film in their environment, as opposed to a shark that hunts a group of spring breakers or beachgoers. There are a lot of people that make a living studying Great Whites, so I wanted to approach it from that angle, while still keeping the thrilling moments people expect from a film like this.”

Dark Tide is directed by John Stockwell (Blue Crush, Into the Blue) and will be released sometime this year.

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According to Variety Halle Berry is advanced talks to star in action-thriller Dark Tide, which will see her strapping on her wetsuit and taking on Great White sharks. The film will be directed by Clark Johnson, director of S.W.A.T and The Sentinel and is expected to start filming later this year in South Africa with a budget of $20 million.

Project, penned by Amy Sorlie, concerns a diving instructor who returns to the deep after a near-fatal incident with a Great White shark.

“Twilight” producers Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey will shepherd “Dark” via their Temple Hill banner.

Halle Berry has been off our screens for far too long, which is a result of her having offspring and starring in a few indie films. She needs a big comeback movie but I don’t think this shark movie will be it. There’s no major studio behind it and it will probably only get a limited release, so it’ll be even longer before we see Berry again in a big way. Damn the world!

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