John Moore, director of Behind Enemy Lines and Max Payne has been brought on to direct a 3D film adaptation of the History Channel show Ice Road Truckers.
“It is very much a tough guy movie,” Moore said in the announcement via Deadline. “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.”
I could see them creating a suspenseful thriller out of the concept.
These guys drive 300 miles across an ice field. There is no land beneath them, and they are driving big rigs across it.
I can see some sort of plot that has the ice becoming dangerously thin, but they need to get some people out of one of the facilities, or someone needs medicine or some other reason to risk the treacherous Ice Roads.
Could be fun.
