The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is a 2004 American comedy-drama film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Wes Anderson. It is Anderson's fourth feature-length film, released in the U.S. on Christmas 2004. It was written by Anderson and Noah Baumbach and was filmed in and around Naples, Ponza, and the Italian Riviera.

The film stars Bill Murray as the eponymous Zissou, an eccentric oceanographer who sets out to exact revenge on the "jaguar shark" that ate his partner Esteban. Zissou is both a parody of and homage to French diving pioneer Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997), to whom the film is dedicated. Cate Blanchett, Willem Dafoe, Michael Gambon, Jeff Goldblum, Anjelica Huston, Owen Wilson, Seu Jorge, and Bud Cort are also featured in the film.

Plot

While oceanographer and documentarian Steve Zissou is working on his latest documentary at sea, his best friend Esteban du Plantier is eaten by a creature Zissou describes as a "Jaguar shark." For his next project, Zissou is determined to document the shark's destruction.

Steve Zissou (jurist)

Steve Zissou (born 1955/56) is an American attorney, with a practice in Federal criminal law in the Bayside, Queens district of New York City. He is also known for having borne that name before the creation of the 2004 film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

He was admitted to legal practice in New York State in 1983.

Buena Vista Pictures contacted Zissou in the process of script clearance because of the match between the names. The two parties negotiated an agreement that includes confidential terms, and the closing titles of the film are said to include the wording "The filmmakers acknowledge that the real Steve Zissou is a prominent attorney in New York City specializing in complex federal litigation."

Zissou represented Denver Broncos player Travis Henry in the 2007 matter of NFL re-testing of Henry's urine in NFL.

In 2010, he is an attorney for Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani in the 1998 United States embassy bombings in East Africa, and made the motion, on the third day of jury deliberations, for declaring a hung jury.