Whiteout

From the official site: Antarctica. The coldest and most isolated place on earth. Temperatures drop to 120 below. Winds whip across the ice at over 100 miles an hour.  Home to one of the deadliest forces in the world: the whiteout.

It’s a place US Marshall Carrie Stetko (KATE BECKINSALE) won’t miss. As the lone law-enforcement agent at the Amundsen-Scott Research Center, her tenure here has not only been harsh but uneventful. In three days, when the station powers down and the sun sets for the long winter, she’ll be getting out; leaving Antarctica for good and turning in her badge for a new life.

But when a body is discovered in the no-man’s land on open ice, Stetko is plunged into a shocking mystery. Bizarrely battered and miles from camp, the dead man is Antarctica’s first homicide victim and Stetko’s first real challenge in a long time.

Her investigation soon involves U.N. Special Agent Robert Pryce (GABRIEL MACHT), sent to monitor her progress in this ungoverned territory.  As the case takes a deadly twist and a 60-year-old secret is unearthed, Stetko herself becomes a target. Pryce could prove to be a powerful ally but only if solving the murder is what he’s really after.

With only days before the last plane out, Stetko must race to unravel the mystery or risk being stranded on the ice as darkness and the killer closes in.

Warner Bros. Pictures presents, in association with Dark Castle Entertainment, a Dominic Sena film: the action thriller Whiteout starring Kate Beckinsale (Underworld), Gabriel Macht (The Spirit), Columbus Short (Stomp the Yard), and Tom Skerritt (Contact). The film is directed by Dominic Sena (Swordfish) from a screenplay by Jon Hoeber & Eric Hoeber and Chad Hayes & Casey W. Hayes, based on a graphic novel by Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber and published by Oni Press.

Opens September 11th.

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Watchmen

Release Date: March 6, 2009

Director Zack Snyder (300) brings another graphic novel to the screen with Watchmen.

“Watchmen” is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” – which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union – is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes.

As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion – a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers – Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity… but who is watching the Watchmen?”

This is looking to be another breakthrough film from director Snyder as he bring the graphic novel to life. In addition, Tales Of The Black Freighter is a pirate genre comic book read by a young boy that hangs out by a Manhattan newsstand. It tells the tale of a castaway’s mental and physical deterioration and damnation as he tries to intercept a ghost freighter headed for his hometown. The comic panels from this pirate story are intertwined with panels from the main comic’s storyline, and is often accompanied by the “off center” street wisdom of an older news vendor. of the sub-story. Tales of the Black Freighter, MAY be added to the film version, if Zack has his way, but it definitely will be added to the DVD. A highlight of Black Freighter is that it will include the voice of 300 star Gerard Butler as the Captain.

Cast members include: Jackie Earle Haley (Walter Kovacs aka Rorschach), Billy Crudup (Jon Osterman aka Dr. Manhattan), Malin Akerman (Laurie Juspeczyk aka The Silk Spectre), Matthew Goode (Adrian Veidt aka Ozymandias), Patrick Wilson (Dan Dreiberg aka The Nite-Owl), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Edward Blake aka The Comedian), Carla Gugino (Sally Jupiter aka The “Original” Silk Spectre), Stephen McHattie (Hollis Mason aka The “Original” Nite-Owl) and Matt Frewer (Edward Jacobiaka Moloch the Mystic).

A complete package for comic and movie fans alike with an exceptional cast and Snyder’s respect for the graphic novel! We’ll be sure to watch this one as the excitement builds!

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