One of my favourite men in a remake of one of my favourite old Hollywood thrillers - life doesn't get much better than this. According to Sky News and Moviehole, Irish bad boy Colin Farrell is already looking around for his post-"Miami Vice" projects and one of them is 1968's "Ice Station Zebra", the Rock Hudson-led adaptation of the famed novel by Alistair MacLean ("The Guns of Navarone", "Where Eagles Dare").
"The cinema's been missing seat-gripping films like this. It's still a classic and I've always loved Rock. I can't wait to get going on this one" said Farrell who would take on the famous gay closeted actor's leading role of US Naval Commander James Ferraday.
The new film is expected to more closely follow the book than the original film did, but will also probably be updated for more contemporary times. In the original story, a US nuclear submarine attempts to rescue a British meteorological team trapped on the polar ice cap. What they do not know is that the rescue attempt is really a cover-up for one of the most desperate espionage missions of the Cold War - a mission that will be plagued by sabotage, murder and disaster.
Thanks to 'Ideo'.
