So this one has been sitting patiently on the shelf for some time now, and Kate Beckinsale is not the strongest in straight-up genre pictures. Yet, a peppy modern trailer with a halfway decent retro-styled voice over and nary a vampire in sight (yet the casting of Alex "Moonlight" O'Loughlin combined with the 'threat' of the sun setting for 6 months may suggest otherwise) promise a tidy little thriller along the lines of Nimrod Antal's underrated Vacancy (you know where Beckinsale got to act and stuff, instead of simply pose in her pretty make-up). There is a bit of gore in the trailer suggesting that punches may not be pulled. Finally, the director is Dominic Sena, so naturally here is hoping more for Kalifornia than Swordfish.
“A U.S. marshal, the only one assigned to Antarctica, must investigate a murder on the frozen continent within three days before the arctic winter begins. She crosses paths with a U.N. operative, also investigating the murder. An adaptation of the comic book of the same name which details just how harsh Antarctica can be: The frozen continent is all white, not paradise, more like hell!"
Trailer is after the jump.
I'm not hating that at all.
Looks pretty good, actually. Better than I anticipated. The book is very good - Rucka being one of the better writers in the business - and Beckinsale looks alright (mind you no dialogue in this, so... we'll have to see about that).
The book is pretty gritty too - very noiresque with a hard drinking female lead (something Rucka favours), so hopefully that 'neo-noir' feeling remains in the film version.
"I just wanna get up to my shack and get drunk... "
/had to be said.
Cautiously optimistic. Looks okay, though I'd have liked a slightly more monochromatic colour palette and I'm really hoping Sena doesn't go overboard with the whole fast-slooooooow-fast-fast-fast-sloooooow thing. The book is extremely good - not Queen & Country good, but very, very good all the same - and it's a decent enough plot that even if it is Bruckheimer'd to the hilt, they'd have to be incompetent not to make it at least watchable.
The graphic novel isn't that gory (no more so than any of the darker police procedurals), though there's one scene that trailer uses a lot of where I'll be impressed if they shoot the aftermath 'right'... just for the psychological impact rather than showing anything nasty.
Fingers crossed, though. I'm a huge Rucka fan, at least of his two pet projects. Dear God, if I could dream-team a Queen & Country film and make it happen I could die a fairly happy man. :D
Looks like my kinda movie!
Looks like SWORDFISH 2!
Nah, not really but I had to fan the flames a lil bit. Also, if I had to choose b/w SWORDFISH and KALIFORNIA, I'd choose SWORDFISH any day.
Everything about this trailer reminded me of 30 DAYS OF NIGHT to the point that I'm sure people will think it will be remake/reboot/sequel to it. Maybe this is the reason it got shelved for so long.
Hopefully it's more like the first section of 30 DAYS OF NIGHT before we actually see the vampires in that case.
The darkness for six months at a time, and the efforts to make a murder mystery look like a shitty slasher film.
What was good in this trailer? Nothing. It bears no resemblance to the book at all, so I'm not sure the quality of the source material gives me any hope at all.
Although I did enjoy Swordfish.
I love that type of voiceover. Reminds me of plenty of 70s horror film trailers.
Been waiting for this one...for ages now. Book is great & I love snowbound flicks.
Just because the film takes place in an area where there is darkness for a long period of time doesn't warrant the comparison to 30 Days. And 30 Days was a straight up horror movie and not a murder mystery slasher so that comparison doesn't even make sense. It's just that people don't have enough imagination to compare it with something else and latch on to the most recent film that featured snow. I'm just surprised that no one mentioned The Thing yet which would make more sense than 30 Days, snow, Antarctica, a "who-done-it".
How do you know it bears no resemblance to the book Andrew? The trailer showed exactly what the story is about, a murder mystery in the Antarctic. And if I remember correctly the book played like a slasher anyway. Blame the trailer for being shitty, not the movie which you haven't seen.
great trailer....everytime is see macht tho i think of the spirit and i die a little inside. definitely going to check this.
looks similar to the ting...will check this out for sure