Ice Road Truckers, History Channel’s successful reality-style documentary about the dangers of frozen-lake trucking routes and the characters that traverse them, may well get turned into a “tough guy movie” by John Moore (Max Payne).
The series was optioned several years ago by 20th Century Fox, but now Moore has pitched the studio an attractive approach to the material, according to Deadline. He sees it as a classically styled men-on-a-mission film-
“…Here’s a bunch of characters who tackle problems by getting in there and getting things done. We’ll turn it into a mission movie that harkens back to Towering Inferno, Jaws, or The Guns of Navarone. You got a problem, go solve it. [sic]”
I could see this being a lot of fun with the right cast of characters, big trucks, beautiful locations, and some powerful-feeling action– but is that the kind of movie that will get made? Will it have any heft to it, or will it be a mostly studio endeavor with a lot of CGI snow (I fucking hate CGI snow) smeared over everything..?
This is still only a pitch, so if the ice truckers are going to make it to screen, they still have the long, cold, and constantly-budget-melting Hollywood road of ahead of them.
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Here' the pitch – "over the top" meets "ice station zebra"
The Recent History Channel!
"it'll be like The Wages Of Fear on ice!"
Fox will probably put Hugh Jackman and his jazzhands in the lead. No thanks.
Jesus Jumped Up Christ! What's next Pawn Stars the movie? If the History Channel wants to make movies in 3D why don't they do a WWII 3D IMAX Documentary? At least that would be cool to see in 3D…
Hmm, a premise like that and he namedrops JAWS instead of THE WAGES OF FEAR?
It's "Jack Frost" meets "The Wages of Fear!"
I'd rather see Ice Cream Truckers than this junk.
CGI Snow is indistinguishable from real snow. Unless you have the vision of Superman you can't see the detail on a single falling snowflake onscreen. Fuck you.
Must star Sylvester Stalone.
3000 Miles to Graceland in my rig
nice wages of fear drop #3!
someone fill me in. What's so bad about cgi snow and what are examples?
why all the rush? it seems like every industry bent on raping resources (oil, logging, trucking) is doing it a break-neck speed, inevitably leading to costly and deadly accidents (i know cause i worked on a rig). putting that on tv only increases the trend. anyway, these resources are finite- if your boat is leaking, why widen the hole?
here ya go then Marco!
Ice Cream Truckers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RzE0l9W4VM
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