Not Without Hope is an upcoming American survival thriller film directed by Joe Carnahan and starring Zachary Levi as Nick Schuyler, the real-life sole survivor of a 2009 boating accident that took the lives of NFL football players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith.
The screenplay was written by E. Nicholas Mariani and Joe Carnahan and is based on Schuyler and Jeré Longman's 2010 nonfiction book of the same title.
[1][2] In June 2020, it was reported that Miles Teller was initially cast as Schuyler, with Rupert Wainwright directing and E. Nicholas Mariani writing the screenplay.
However, it was reported that month that Wainwright was no longer directing due to creative differences.
[1] In June 2023, it was announced that Duhamel, Williams, Plair, Terrell, Cook and Lima were also cast in the film.