Carnahan’s THE GREY, Starring Liam Neeson, Is Greenlit

Deadline reported that director Joe Carnahan‘s (The A-Team) thriller THE GREY, has been greenlit and production will start next week in locations in Vancouver in the very cold Northern British Columbia region…

Starring Liam Neeson, Dallas Roberts, James Badge Dale, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo, Nonso Anozie, and Joe Anderson. THE GREY is about “survivors of plane crash who are then hunted by a pack of wolves”
Co-written by Carnahan and Ian Jeffers, here’s the current plot..it “begins after a plane goes down in Alaska, with a man (Neeson) and his oil drilling team find themselves struggling to survive in the wild. The men come under attack by large, vicious, aggressive wolves who see the humans as intruders who must be killed.”

Here’s Carnahan’s comment on the location and the wolves..

“It gets to be 30 below, and when we went out the other day, I took off my hat to see how long I could last, and my skin was burning with frostbite in a little over a minute,”
“In a way, it’s great, because it beats the shit out of the cast and that suits the storyline.”
“I haven’t had a situation like this since Narc, where there’s no distributor, but you get to make the movie you want to, staying as light on your feet as you can.”

“The wolves have a territorial range of 300 miles, and they will run you out if you cross that. If you’re within 30 miles of their den as is the case here, they will try to kill you. It’s simple arithmetic, but it creates an opportunity for one of those man vs. nature movies I love like Deliverance and Touching The Void.”