{"id":214065,"date":"2025-10-20T21:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/214065\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T21:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:50:07","slug":"melissa-barrera-joins-john-travolta-in-renny-harlins-orca-horror-movie-black-tides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/214065\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Barrera Joins John Travolta in Renny Harlin&#8217;s Orca Horror Movie &#8216;Black Tides&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we wait for his return to shark attack horror with the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/movie\/3902439\/deep-water-renny-harlins-return-to-shark-attack-cinema-releasing-in-may-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Deep Water<\/a>, director Renny Harlin (Deep Blue Sea) is now filming a totally different aquatic horror movie.<\/p>\n<p>This one\u2019s titled Black Tides and centers on killer orcas rather than killer sharks, and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/10\/melissa-barrera-joins-john-travolta-in-black-tides-spain-1236592228\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Deadline<\/a> reports this week that Melissa Barrera (Scream) will star alongside John Travolta.<\/p>\n<p>Ella Bleu Travolta (The Poison Rose), \u00c1lvaro Mel (A Perfect Story) and Dylan Torrell (Islands) will also star in Renny Harlin\u2019s Black Tides, which is now filming in Gran Canaria, Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Black Tides follows Bill Pierce (Travolta), an estranged father trying to reconnect with his daughter Rebecca (Barrera) and grandson Sebastian (Torrell) when their sailboat is attacked by rogue orcas off the southern Spanish coast\u2014setting off a fight for survival across open waters.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Sparling (Greenland) and \u00c1ngel Agudo (Apocalypse Z) wrote the film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto \">\u201cMelissa brings both fire and vulnerability to a role that demands it all\u2014emotionally, physically, and cinematically,\u201d Harlin said in a statement. \u201cShe and John are movie magic together, and they elevate every beat of this story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto \">\u201cShooting at sea is one of the hardest things you can do in film but the footage we\u2019re getting is stunning,\u201d added producer Adri\u00e1n Guerra. \u201cThe cast has bonded in a way that\u2019s rare and powerful, and Renny\u2019s directing chops are on full display\u2014balancing raw spectacle with real human emotion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While we wait for his return to shark attack horror with the upcoming Deep Water, director Renny Harlin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[92144,96,24565,80110,2839,14810,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-214065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-black-tides","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-john-travolta","11":"tag-melissa-barrera","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-renny-harlin","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}