Picturehouse and New Line Intl. will team with Charlize Theron's Denver And Delilah Films to make "The Ice at the Bottom of the World," a drama that Theron will star in and produce reports Variety.
Set in the Chesapeake Bay, where a Navy captain reluctantly retires for health reasons. After years of neglecting his family while at sea, the grizzled veteran throws his dysfunctional family into chaos. Theron will play one of his daughters, who returns home a heroin addict and the single mother of a mixed-race child.
For several years, Theron has controlled the rights to the drama, which Mark Richard scripted from his fictional short story. The film is set up to be bank-financed through New Line and handled as a negative pickup. In the deal, Theron will wind up owning the negative. Production will begin later this year.
