KON-TIKI Trailer

The Weinstein Company has released a new trailer for directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg‘s adventure Kon-Tiki. It is based on the true story of Thor Heyerdahl, a Norwegian ethnographer who set sail on a 4,300-mile journey on a Kon-Tiki raft – from South America to Polynesia on a balsa wood raft in order to prove his theory that previous settlers followed the same journey.

Norway’s Epic Oscar-Nominated adventure stars Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Gustaf Skarsgård, Odd Magnus Williamson, Tobias Santelmann, Jakob Oftebro, Agnes Kittelsen, and Eleanor Burke.

Take a look at the trailer below and don’t forget to give us your thoughts in the comments section.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4kDQs0eo4k

Kon-Tiki comes to theaters April 26th, 2013.

Here’s the official synopsis for Kon-Tiki

In 1947, the world is gripped with excitement as the young Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl embarks on an astonishing expedition – a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean on the Kon-Tiki raft. From his days living in the Marquesas with his wife Liv, Thor suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled by ancient South Americans from thousands of miles to the east. Despite his inability to swim and fear of water, Thor decides to prove his theory by sailing the legendary voyage himself. After replicating the design of an ancient raft in balsa wood, Thor and five fellow adventurers set sail from Peru.

Their only modern equipment is a radio, and they take a parrot along for company. A natural leader, Thor uses the stars and the ocean’s current to navigate the raft. After three dangerous months on the open sea, encountering raging storms, sharks, and all the dangers the Ocean can muster, the exhausted crew sight Polynesia and make a triumphant landing. Having sacrificed everything for his mission, even his marriage, the success of the Kon-Tiki expedition proves bittersweet for Thor.