Mark Wahlberg is going to what is possibly the least thrilling place on Earth to find his next thriller. I suppose it can’t possibly be less thrilling than the killer plants.

THR says he’s set to star in a remake of Reykjavik-Rotterdam, an “Icelandic thriller”. When I think Icelandic thriller I think environmentalists whining about dying polar bears, but apparently this is about a rum runner turned security guard lured back into the bootlegging business by financial trouble. I guess it’s kind of like Smokey and the Bandit, except on skis.

The movie Wahlberg’s version will be based on is responsible for that horrible name which someone will definitely change since they’re not stupid enough to set a thriller in Iceland and will thus locate it to somewhere more exciting. Malibu maybe. The original movie, though, is Iceland’s 2009 submission for the foreign language Oscar which either means that it must be good, or that it was the only movie they made in Iceland last year. I hear that economy thing hit them pretty hard. Plus with all the global warming they may be running out of ice. How will they drink iced tea?