Shooting mostly in Iceland and Greenland, the team behind Netflix’s upcoming release “Against the Ice” – now shown in Berlin – had to battle punishing weather conditions and freezing cold, as well as star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
“It was quite challenging, working with Nikolaj. Apart from that, it was alright,” joked actor Joe Cole during the press conference. “My character is quite different from me. He is relentlessly positive, upbeat, excited to be around this ‘celebrity’. He is in awe of Nikolaj. Can’t say the same.”
Inspired by a 1909 exhibition led to disprove US claims to northeastern Greenland, the film sees Cole as Iver P. Iversen, an inexperienced mechanic who joins Danish explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen (Coster-Waldau) on his journey. Later, he becomes his only companion after their crew leaves them behind.
“We were sure we wanted to shoot on location,” added Coster-Waldau. “First of all, it looks much better, but also for selfish reasons.
“It was quite challenging, working with Nikolaj. Apart from that, it was alright,” joked actor Joe Cole during the press conference. “My character is quite different from me. He is relentlessly positive, upbeat, excited to be around this ‘celebrity’. He is in awe of Nikolaj. Can’t say the same.”
Inspired by a 1909 exhibition led to disprove US claims to northeastern Greenland, the film sees Cole as Iver P. Iversen, an inexperienced mechanic who joins Danish explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen (Coster-Waldau) on his journey. Later, he becomes his only companion after their crew leaves them behind.
“We were sure we wanted to shoot on location,” added Coster-Waldau. “First of all, it looks much better, but also for selfish reasons.
- 2/16/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Take one glance at the spectacular landscapes of Greenland and you understand why in Inuit the word for snow has so many variations and derivations. The aerial establishing shot that opens Peter Flinth’s “Against the Ice” alone challenges the descriptive powers of the English language; inhabiting such an environment continually, you would have to find new exotic coinages to communicate the sheer variety of textures that freezing water can exhibit. Such creative imagination, however is sorely lacking from Flinth’s handsome but plodding adventure movie. To reduce a titanic struggle for survival in one of the most inhospitable climes on earth to such by-the-numbers drama is in many ways akin to standing on a jagged frozen peak, gazing across blizzard-assailed permafrost plains to crumbling white cliffs and ice shelfs beyond and thinking “Snow.”
This Netflix movie — and it feels oddly precision-tooled as a “Netflix movie” — is adapted by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau...
This Netflix movie — and it feels oddly precision-tooled as a “Netflix movie” — is adapted by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau...
- 2/15/2022
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game Of Thrones) and Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders) are leading the cast of Against The Ice, a survival movie being produced by Baltasar Kormákur (Everest) for Netflix.
The pic is a passion project for Emmy nominee Coster-Waldau, who has penned the screenplay with co-writer Joe Derrick, adapted from the original Danish novel Two Against The Ice.
The English-language movie is being produced by Kormákur’s Rvk Studios, the Icelandic production company behind the Netflix original series Katla and newly announced Entrapped. It is also the first project from Coster-Waldau and Derrick’s fledgling production co Ill Kippers to progress into production.
In 1909, Denmark’s Alabama Expedition led by Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) was attempting to disprove the United States’ claim to North Eastern Greenland, a claim that was rooted in the idea that Greenland was broken up into two different pieces of land. Leaving their crew behind with the ship,...
The pic is a passion project for Emmy nominee Coster-Waldau, who has penned the screenplay with co-writer Joe Derrick, adapted from the original Danish novel Two Against The Ice.
The English-language movie is being produced by Kormákur’s Rvk Studios, the Icelandic production company behind the Netflix original series Katla and newly announced Entrapped. It is also the first project from Coster-Waldau and Derrick’s fledgling production co Ill Kippers to progress into production.
In 1909, Denmark’s Alabama Expedition led by Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) was attempting to disprove the United States’ claim to North Eastern Greenland, a claim that was rooted in the idea that Greenland was broken up into two different pieces of land. Leaving their crew behind with the ship,...
- 1/19/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
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