Whiteout (2008)

Movies:: Whiteout (2008)
Kate Beckinsale in Whiteout Movie Poster
(beyondhollywood.com)

Kate Beckinsale’s latest movie role will take her to the cold frozen tundras of Antarctica, where she’ll play a U.S. Marshal sent to the frozen continent to investigate its first homicide. Apparently no one has ever been murdered there, and Kate, as Carrie Stetko, gets the (not altogether) cozy assignment. The problem? There is only 3 days left until a 6-month winter sets in, forcing Carrie to work fast and catch the killer, lest she get stuck in a 6-month long darkness with him, or her, or it. (Hey, it could be a penguin. You never know.)

Starring Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht, Tom Skerritt, and directed by Dominic Sena, whose last movie was 2001’s “Swordfish”.

According to HNR, the movie is currently shooting in Montreal and Manitoba. The movie is based on the comic book of the same name by Greg Rucka/Steve Lieber for ONI Press.

Here’s the movie poster, which is apparently inspired by a Frank Miller drawn cover for the comic book. (How “photoshoppy” does the poster look?)

Monday, July 30th, 2007 at 1:04 am by Nix
http://www.beyondhollywood.com/kate-beckinsale-in-whiteout-movie-poster/

Len Wiseman Director
Production Companies Lakeshore Records Screen Gems Pictures
Writer Danny McBride Len Wiseman

Written by acclaimed novelist Greg Rucka , illustrated by me and published by Oni Press, WHITEOUT is a graphic novel--a thriller set in Antarctica. It's been nominated for four Eisner awards: Best Writer, Best Artist, Best Limited Series, Best Graphic Album. Comics2Film maintains an ongoing WHITEOUT movie news page

WHITEOUT is available through any comic shop or bookstore. I encourage you to support your local independent retailer. (Call 1-888-COMIC BOOK or hit the Master List of Comic Book Stores.)

If you can't get it locally, here are some online sources:
Khepri Comics | Mars Import | Barnes & Noble| Amazon.com

Some WHITEOUT reviews:
Artbomb | Good Reads | Sequential Tart | Cold Cut | NEXTpage | Pipeline | Amazing Montage | Comics Worth Reading | Misenchanted | Shotgun Reviews | Silver Bullet | Library Thing | Diamond Bookshelf | Fourth Rail | No Flying, No Tights | Strange-Haven

“No official government, No official population, because when the winter comes the sky turns black and stays that way for 6 months at a time.”

“Glacial winds gust to 200 mph, and the snow is so white that you cant see six inches in front of you.”

A bunch of people in parkas struggle during an intense snowstorm.

“No horizon, No shadows. There is only white.”

“Nature never intended for you to survive here, but next year nature is the least of your worries.”

We see a death and a montage of quick clips that went by to fast, I was unable to fully take it in.

“This isn’t jusrt a murder, it’s the first murder in Antarctica!”

It was a well cut teaser that makes you want more. But at the same time it shows and reveals very little. I think I might try to find some time to get onto the show floor to pick up the graphic novel. Creator Greg Rucka insists that the film is even better than his book.

“They’ve taken the best of what Steve Lieber and I created,” gushed Greg Rucka. “There are things Steve and I wished we could do on the comic book page but just wouldn’t have worked on the page.

He insists that there are moments and scenes in the film that made him jealous. There is stuff that he wished could have been included in the graphic novel. And while a big potion of the movie is faithful to the book, there is unfortunately some character changes. Lilly is not in the film. She is replaced by a character named Price. Rucka explains that there are not many women in the Arctic, and that is why she has been replaced with a male character.

The movie was filmed in Winnipeg in (at times) minus 40 degrees. The actors endured countless hours in the freezing cold. Driving to and from the set they would always see at least one car that crashed because of the snow.

A fan asked Kate Beckinsale about the difference between doing Underworld and Whiteout, which she joked “It is different, I slept with the director way fewer times [on this one].” Beckinsale is married to director Len Wiseman (Live Free or Die Hard).

http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/07/27/whiteout-trailer-revealed-at-comic-con/