The new trailer for the Ron Howard-directed epic oceanic film "In the Heart of the Sea" starring Chris Hemsworth was released online. The clip shows scenes from the shipwreck of Hemsworth's ship The Essex, destroyed by an unseen power in the ocean.

This is the second recent film that Howard has directed Hemsworth in; the film "Rush," which was released in Sept. 2013, in which Hemsworth plays real-life Formula One race car driver James Hunt. The reunion of the actor-director team tells the real-life story adapted from the Nathaniel Philbrick book of the events that Herman Melville witnessed that led him to write the literary classic, Moby Dick.

In the book, which is set in the height of the whaling business in the winter of 1820, tells the tale of The Essex being destroyed after setting out from New England by a whale. After the ship sinks, the survivors resort to drastic measures and even cannibalism to be rescued. There have been several attempts at making the book into a movie since its release and it won the National Book Award in 2000.

In Howad's version, this teaser trailer shows rapid-fire clips of The Essex sinking, fiery waters and Hemsworth underwater and holding a gun and hurling a harpoon. The sneak peak also features flashbacks of the Essex's crew, played by Ben Whishaw, who plays Mellville, Cillian Murphy, Benjamin Walker and Brendan Gleeson, before they were in peril on the open waters. A voiceover narrates "trust gave way to doubt, hope to superstition."

The ominous words lead into the final cliffhanger scene of the trailer, which teases a giant whale tail ready to smash down a death blow to the ship. Hemworth is then shown being washed ashore. As he struggles, a final voiceover says, "the tragedy of the Essex is the story of men."

The film is currently in postproduction stages and Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures has set the release date for "In the Heart of the Sea" in March 2015.