page_title: The Wave (2015 film)
section_title: Development
hierarchical_section_title: The Wave (2015 film) / Production / Development
caption_attribution_description: Geiranger, Norway, from southeast (Flydalsjuvet)
context_page_description: The Wave is a 2015 Norwegian disaster film directed by Roar Uthaug. It was Norway's official submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but failed to be nominated. The movie depicts a future event in Møre og Romsdal in which the Åkerneset crevasse collapses, creating an avalanche resulting in an 80-metre tall tsunami that destroys everything in its path. A sequel titled The Quake, directed by John Andreas Andersen, was released on 31 August 2018.
context_section_description: Norway is a rockslide prone area (created by the Caledonian orogeny) and The Wave is based on a rock-slide tsunami incident which destroyed the village of Tafjord on 7 April 1934, killing 40 people. Prior to that, a similar incident in 1905 triggered a tsunami killing 60 people, and 31 years later, another 74 lost their lives. Uthaug has always been a fan of Hollywood disaster films such as Twister and Armageddon and had long wanted to make a disaster film in Norway. According to him the challenge was to combine the elements of the American genre film with the reality of the situation in Norway.
  All the actors performed their own stunts, something the director said was "utterly nerve-racking." And for a climatic scene, in which Joner tries to rescue his family from a flooded hotel, he trained with free-diving instructors to be able to hold his breath for three minutes underwater.
caption: Filming took place in Geiranger, a small tourist town just below Åkerneset.[11]
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