A Taihape company that provided inflatable boats for the soon-to-be released Angelina Jolie-helmed film Unbroken is also working on dry docks for the oil industry and large, stable rescue boats for multiple emergency situations in the United States.
Incept Marine owner John Booth expects he will catch up with the film at some point after it is released in New Zealand on January 22.
Incept makes and exports inflatable kayaks, rafts and rescue craft all over the world and got an order from the procurement agent for the film for 30 inflatable boats. Unbroken is the story of American Olympic runner Louis Zamperini who, having been sent to World War II, survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and consigned to a prisoner-of-war camp.
"I don't know what they did with them all," says Mr Booth.
The film was made in Australia. The boats were made "old and weathered" for the film sequences of Zamperini in the raft, but the remainder of Incept Marine's work is definitely cutting edge.