Wolverine director eyeing Alaskan adventure pic
Gavin Hood, the director of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, is in negotiations to shoot an untitled Alaskan adventure project.
Based on Gay and Laney Salisbury’s book The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story Of Dogs And Men In A Race Against An Epidemic, the true story centres on a 674-mile journey undertaken by 20 men and 200 dogs, who rushed a diphtheria antidote to Nome, Alaska, in 1952.
The group braved temperatures of minus-60 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-51 Celsius), a phenomenon known as ice fog and other dangers, capturing the attention of the lower 48 states. One lead dog even got a statue in New York’s Central Park.
The project is set up at family-friendly producer Walden Media, which is currently in theaters with Tooth Fairy. It is eyeing a summer start for the project, which at one point was in development at Miramax under the title Ice Bound.
The deal marks the first project for Hood since Wolverine, which grossed $373 million worldwide last year. His other credits include the South African drama Tsotsi, which won the foreign-language Oscar in 2006 and the Iraq war-themed drama Rendition.