Joel Kinnaman (The Suicide Squad, Silent Night) and Cara Jade Myers (Killers of the Flower Moon) are set to star in Ice Fall. Academy Award-winning filmmaker Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters, Deadfall, Netflix’s “Barbarians”) will direct from a script by George Mahaffey (upcoming Chief of Station).
Production is set to start in March in Europe as marketgoers in Berlin await what’s in store from Arclight Films who will handle worldwide rights and commence sales at the European Film Market next week. Arclight is also producing alongside Top Film, Addam Bramich, Ryan Hamilton and Rob Van Norden.
“We are delighted that the talented Joel Kinnaman and Cara Jade Myers are leading our cast in this nail-biting crime thriller. Ice Fall is a smart, intense and gripping thriller full of suspense and intrigue with so many twists and turns. And with director Stefan Ruzowitzky at the helm, we cannot wait for cameras to roll on this fantastic project,” said Arclight Films Chairman Gary Hamilton.
Ice Fall centers on a young Indigenous game warden who arrests an infamous poacher only to discover that the poacher knows the location of a plane carrying millions of dollars that has crashed in a frozen lake. When a group of criminals and dirty cops are alerted to the poacher’s whereabouts, the warden and the poacher team up to fight back and escape across the treacherous lake before the ice melts.
Kinnaman currently stars as the lead in Apple TV+’s epic sci-fi series, “For All Mankind.” The Critics’ Choice-nominated drama was named USA Today and Rolling Stone’s Top Show of the Year of 2021. He will next star in the Boston crime thriller The Silent Hour opposite Mark Strong.
Myers has also been seen on NBC’s award-winning series “This Is Us” and “Rutherford Falls.” An enrolled member of the Wichita and Kiowa tribes, she also is currently working on a documentary and as a writer, has several scripts in development.
Ruzowitzky wrote and directed The Counterfeiters, winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2008. Additional credits include The Inheritors, Deadfall starring Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde, Patient Zero starring Natalie Dormer, Stanley Tucci and Matt Smith, and the Netflix series “Barbarians.”
Arclight Films’ current slate of films includes Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada starring Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Michael Imperioli and Jacob Elordi; Renny Harlin’s epic survival thriller Deep Water; Assassination starring Viggo Mortensen, Al Pacino and Shia LaBeouf, written by David Mamet and directed by Barry Levinson and the comedy Arthur’s Whisky starring Academy Award-winner Diane Keaton, Patricia Hodge and the legendary Scottish singer/actress Lulu.
Kinnaman is repped by WME, Magnolia Entertainment, R&C PMK and Jill Smith at Kleinberg, Lange, Cuddy and Carlo LLP. Myers is repped by Stride Management, Persona PR. Ruzowitzky is represented by UTA.
