The adaptation of non-superhero comics has officially gone to far with the announcement that Kate Beckinsale is negotiating to star in an Antarctic whodunit. It’s called Whiteout. It’s not just a title, take a whiff and it’s a way of maximizing your enjoyment of the movie.

The story comes from Production Weekly where they say it’s being helmed by Swordfish and Gone in Sixty Seconds director Dominic Sena. I knew his name, but I wasn’t aware that his career had been going so badly. But then I did run out of the theater pretty fast after both of those movies. I was out the door before they got to the directed by credit.

The film is based on a 1998 four-issue black and white graphic novel also called “Whiteout”, written by Greg Rucka with artwork by Steve Lieber. , If she ends up with the part luscious Kate B will play the lead, a US Marshall named Carrie Stetko working at an Antarctic research station. Why we have a US Marshall working in the most remote place on Eath I’ll leave you to ponder. I guess she’s head of penguin investigations. But when there’s a human on human murder just before the sun sets for six months, she must race to catch the killer or be stuck there with him in a world without sunlight for the next six months.