That’s the fate that real-life diver Chris Lemons nearly faced in 2012. And now, his harrowing story is a major Hollywood movie, aka Last Breath, which opened in theaters last week.

Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty Chris Lemons at Focus Features' "Last Breath" premiere on February 25, 2025 in New York City. Chris Lemons is a former saturation diver from Scotland.

The most obvious change Last Breath makes to the true story of Chris Lemons’ survival isn’t to do with the drama itself, however. It’s in the casting of its lead actors.

Director Alex Parkinson turned his 2019 documentary into a dramatic thriller (now playing in theaters) starring Finn Cole as real-life saturation diver Chris Lemons, who earns his living repairing ...

Directed by Alex Parkinson from a script co-written with Mitchell LaFortune and David Brooks, Last Breath follows the true story of Chris Lemons, a saturation diver who survived an incident ...

Director Alex Parkinson’s survival thriller “Last Breath” is an adaptation of his 2019 documentary of the same name, based on the real life story of saturation diver Chris Lemons (Finn Cole, “Locked ...

Last Breath is based on the filmmaker’s own 2019 documentary of the same name, and it chronicles the miraculous rescue effort of saturation diver, Chris Lemons (Cole), in 2012.

Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu and Finn Cole comprise an appealing trio as divers Duncan Allcock, Dave Yuasa and Chris Lemons, respectively. We first meet Cole’s Chris and his fiancee, Morag (Bobby ...

The subject, in this case, is a 2012 mishap in the North Sea, where the real Chris Lemons got stranded doing what some ominous opening text describes as “one of the most dangerous jobs in the ...