News Summary

• Whalefall follows university student Jay Gardiner (played by Austin Abrams) as he is accidentally swallowed by a sperm whale while scuba diving.
• The making of both the novel and its subsequent film relied heavily on collaboration with scientific advisors.
• Joy Reidenberg, a comparative anatomist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, says she and the storytellers discussed everything from what whale species would work best for the ‘modern-day Jonah’ story.