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23 September 2009 11:12 PM, PDT | | See recent news »

(This review discusses these two movies in great detail. )

There are two things that need to be said about Whiteout. First, it is based on a comic book. Second, it sat on the shelf for two years.

Whiteout is based on the graphic novel by mystery-novelist-turned-comic-writer Greg Rucka and award winning illustrator Steve Lieber. Once the movie was made, however, with Dominic Sena (Swordfish, Kalifornia) directing and four writers – Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber, Chad Hayes, and Carey W. Hayes – as the credited adaptors, the studio, Warner, shelved the film for two years when shooting ceased in 2007. Thus there is a certain youthful freshness to the face of lead actress Kate Beckinsale, as Carrie Stetko, a U. S. Marshall assigned to the American scientific station at the South Pole, which is about to close for its six-months-of-night hiatus. At the last minute, a corpse turns up out in the ice, which »

- dkholm

1 article from 2009