Charlie Cox (Ishmael), Donald Sutherland (Father Mapple) and Gillian Anderson (Ahab's wife, Elizabeth) have joined a cast led by William Hurt as Ahab and Ethan Hawke as Starbuck for "TeleMunchen Group's $25.5 million telepic of Moby Dick," according to Variety, which reported that the adaptation of Herman Melville's classic novel is "TeleMunchen's most expensive production ever. . . . Pic began shooting in Lunenburg, near Halifax, Canada, in mid-September and will continue in Malta."

