Warner Bros. has released the final trailer for director Ron Howard's "In the Heart of the Sea," the historical thriller starring Chris Hemsworth.

Based on the real events that inspired Herman Melville to write “Moby Dick,” the film follows the early 19th-century whaling ship the Essex, which came face to face with a whale of mammoth proportions, and lost. In the harrowing aftermath, the remaining crew is pushed beyond its limits, and forced to do the unthinkable, in order to survive.

Opening Dec. 11, “In the Heart of the Sea” also stars Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, Tom Holland, Ben Whishaw and Brendan Gleeson.