Photo: ‘Against the Ice’ Background and Synopsis In 1909, Danish explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen led an expedition into Greenland to map out its northeast coast, as well as to recover the bodies and records from the failed Denmark expedition. His engineer, Iver Iversen, joined him in finding the documents needed to prove the United States’ claim to the Northeastern region false, the two leaving the rest of the crew behind on his ship, the Alabama. When they returned, however, they found the crew had already left, leaving behind a cabin built from the trapped ship’s parts (the crew returned home on a whaling ship). Without any means of returning themselves, Ejnar and Iversen were left stranded in the region, waiting in the hopes that someone might come and rescue them. Related article: Oscar-nominated - Exclusive: 'Dune' Full Commentary, Reactions, Making Of - Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac Related article: Oscar-nominated -...
- 3/4/2022
- by Austin Oguri
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau heard "winter is coming" on "Game of Thrones" for years, but apparently decided that he hadn't had quite enough ice and snow. In his latest film, "Against the Ice," now streaming on Netflix, the actor faces off against the icy wastes of Greenland with only a single companion and a pack of sled dogs. "Against the Ice" was a passion project for Coster-Waldau, who co-wrote the screenplay with Joe Derrick, based on the memoir "Two Against the Ice" by explorer Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen.
In 1909, Mikkelsen and a crew of Danish explorers set out to prove that Greenland was one solid land mass. The United States...
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In 1909, Mikkelsen and a crew of Danish explorers set out to prove that Greenland was one solid land mass. The United States...
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- 3/3/2022
- by Danielle Ryan
- Slash Film
I must say I was excited entering Against the Ice. It has a captivating premise centered on an Arctic expedition at the northern end of Greenland circa 1909, is based on the autobiographical account of Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen, and deals with a nearly three-year survival opposite extreme weather conditions, isolation, and polar bears. Director Peter Flinth ratcheted my anticipation even higher during the opening scene, dropping us into the action as Mikkelsen is sledging back to camp with his second-in-command Jörgensen (Gísli Örn Garðarsson) in desperate need of medical attention for frostbitten toes. The filmmakers skip past all exposition to get right to the meat of their adventure. I buckled myself in.
For a time they make good on that promise. Its opening act is effectively structured, introducing characters, explaining the reasons for being in the ice (claiming the body and findings of Mikkelsen’s old friend who never returned home...
For a time they make good on that promise. Its opening act is effectively structured, introducing characters, explaining the reasons for being in the ice (claiming the body and findings of Mikkelsen’s old friend who never returned home...
- 3/3/2022
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Some true stories are almost too incredible to be believed, like Denmark's Arctic Expedition in 1909. Led by Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen, the team set out to dispute the United State's claim on Northeast Greenland. If the team could prove that Greenland was one massive piece of land and not two separate ones, as the U.S. believed, then the territory would remain Denmark's. After the ship was marooned in ice and a previous attempt to trek north failed, Mikkelsen set out to prove it himself, accompanied only by the ship's inexperienced young mechanic, Iver Iversen (Joe Cole). They manage to find proof but are...
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- 3/3/2022
- by Danielle Ryan
- Slash Film
Fair warning: The dog dies in Peter Flinth’s “Against the Ice,” a turgid survival drama based on the true account of two Danish explorers’ punishing 1909 trek to the north-eastern tip of Greenland. In fact, all of them do — not just Bjørn, the adorable sled puppy who plummets to his doom at the bottom of an Arctic crevice just a few short minutes after fresh-faced engineer Iver Iversen (Joe Cole) makes the mistake of bonding with him by name. The situation later becomes so grim that Iver begins to shoot the weakest dogs and feed their meat to the stronger ones, who will soon be eaten themselves.
These gruesome events all take place within the first 100 days of a journey that will languish for 700 more, as the naive Iver and his headstrong leader Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen (co-writer Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) are eventually reduced to lancing each other’s neck boils and...
These gruesome events all take place within the first 100 days of a journey that will languish for 700 more, as the naive Iver and his headstrong leader Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen (co-writer Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) are eventually reduced to lancing each other’s neck boils and...
- 3/2/2022
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
By Abe Friedtanzer
Looking at the poster for today’s new Netflix release, you might first think of two possibilities. One is that it’s the latest Liam-Neeson-fights-wolves survival thriller, only Neeson wasn’t available. The other is that it’s a new project you haven’t heard about from Christopher Nolan where the characters defy gravity in their walks like in Inception and Tenet. It turns out it’s neither, but rather just a snow-set drama about a real-life explorer from Denmark.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, best known as Jaime Lannister from Game of Thrones, stars as Ejnar Mikkelsen, the captain of a 1909 Danish expedition whose express goal is to show his country’s claim to Northeast Greenland, which is being challenged by the United States...
Looking at the poster for today’s new Netflix release, you might first think of two possibilities. One is that it’s the latest Liam-Neeson-fights-wolves survival thriller, only Neeson wasn’t available. The other is that it’s a new project you haven’t heard about from Christopher Nolan where the characters defy gravity in their walks like in Inception and Tenet. It turns out it’s neither, but rather just a snow-set drama about a real-life explorer from Denmark.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, best known as Jaime Lannister from Game of Thrones, stars as Ejnar Mikkelsen, the captain of a 1909 Danish expedition whose express goal is to show his country’s claim to Northeast Greenland, which is being challenged by the United States...
- 3/2/2022
- by Abe Friedtanzer
- FilmExperience
Grab a blanket before watching this chilling drama that follows Denmark’s 1909 Arctic Expedition, led by Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen. Based on Mikkelsen’s 1957 memoir, Two Against the Ice, the story follows the explorer and inexperienced crew member Iver Iverson (Joe Cole) as they seek to prove that Greenland is one island. Though the stern Mikkelsen leads the dangerous mission, “he loses his sense of direction,” says Coster-Waldau, also a producer and cowriter. His only choice: Rely on “young rookie” Iverson. Shot in Iceland and Greenland, Ice easily conveys the frigid temps. “We said we have to be in the elements. It’s not a [CGI] movie,” says Coster-Waldau. “You have to feel cold when you watch.” We did! Plus, Harrowing Tales of Survival: Adrift Got Dramamine? In 1983, two young lovers (Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin) sail into a hurricane and then find themselves (see title) in ...
- 3/2/2022
- TV Insider
Game of Thrones alum Nikolaj Coster-Waldau co-writes and stars in a solid retelling of Danish explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen’s epic Greenland expedition
An unusual expedition here for Netflix, unusual less for the nature of the expedition itself and more for the ambition of it, a rare film for the streamer that allows us to travel with characters to a real location, a world away from green screens and sound stages. It shouldn’t be quite this much of a unique selling point but in the age of modestly budgeted fare crafted for the smallest of screens, the sheer on-the-ground expanse of old-fashioned survival adventure Against the Ice immediately separates it from the many other films landing, or most often crash-landing, on the platform.
It’s a vital separation from its contemporary streaming peers as when compared with the big-screen films that have come before in this particular genre, it’s...
An unusual expedition here for Netflix, unusual less for the nature of the expedition itself and more for the ambition of it, a rare film for the streamer that allows us to travel with characters to a real location, a world away from green screens and sound stages. It shouldn’t be quite this much of a unique selling point but in the age of modestly budgeted fare crafted for the smallest of screens, the sheer on-the-ground expanse of old-fashioned survival adventure Against the Ice immediately separates it from the many other films landing, or most often crash-landing, on the platform.
It’s a vital separation from its contemporary streaming peers as when compared with the big-screen films that have come before in this particular genre, it’s...
- 3/1/2022
- by Benjamin Lee
- The Guardian - Film News
Shooting mostly in Iceland and Greenland, the team behind Netflix’s upcoming release “Against the Ice” – now shown in Berlin – had to battle punishing weather conditions and freezing cold, as well as star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
“It was quite challenging, working with Nikolaj. Apart from that, it was alright,” joked actor Joe Cole during the press conference. “My character is quite different from me. He is relentlessly positive, upbeat, excited to be around this ‘celebrity’. He is in awe of Nikolaj. Can’t say the same.”
Inspired by a 1909 exhibition led to disprove US claims to northeastern Greenland, the film sees Cole as Iver P. Iversen, an inexperienced mechanic who joins Danish explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen (Coster-Waldau) on his journey. Later, he becomes his only companion after their crew leaves them behind.
“We were sure we wanted to shoot on location,” added Coster-Waldau. “First of all, it looks much better, but also for selfish reasons.
“It was quite challenging, working with Nikolaj. Apart from that, it was alright,” joked actor Joe Cole during the press conference. “My character is quite different from me. He is relentlessly positive, upbeat, excited to be around this ‘celebrity’. He is in awe of Nikolaj. Can’t say the same.”
Inspired by a 1909 exhibition led to disprove US claims to northeastern Greenland, the film sees Cole as Iver P. Iversen, an inexperienced mechanic who joins Danish explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen (Coster-Waldau) on his journey. Later, he becomes his only companion after their crew leaves them behind.
“We were sure we wanted to shoot on location,” added Coster-Waldau. “First of all, it looks much better, but also for selfish reasons.
- 2/16/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Take one glance at the spectacular landscapes of Greenland and you understand why in Inuit the word for snow has so many variations and derivations. The aerial establishing shot that opens Peter Flinth’s “Against the Ice” alone challenges the descriptive powers of the English language; inhabiting such an environment continually, you would have to find new exotic coinages to communicate the sheer variety of textures that freezing water can exhibit. Such creative imagination, however is sorely lacking from Flinth’s handsome but plodding adventure movie. To reduce a titanic struggle for survival in one of the most inhospitable climes on earth to such by-the-numbers drama is in many ways akin to standing on a jagged frozen peak, gazing across blizzard-assailed permafrost plains to crumbling white cliffs and ice shelfs beyond and thinking “Snow.”
This Netflix movie — and it feels oddly precision-tooled as a “Netflix movie” — is adapted by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau...
This Netflix movie — and it feels oddly precision-tooled as a “Netflix movie” — is adapted by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau...
- 2/15/2022
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Shooting upcoming Netflix pic Against The Ice was no straightforward task, as its stars and director reveal to Deadline in a first interview as a trio.
The movie, which premieres at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 15, stars Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game Of Thrones) and Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders) as two members of a real Danish expedition (the Alabama Expedition) between 1906 and 1908 that sought to prove that Greenland was only one island (which was disputed by the U.S.) by crossing it on foot and sledge.
Coster-Waldau plays Ejnar Mikkelsen, an experienced captain, while Cole plays Iver Iversen, an engineer who volunteers for the perilous trek despite his lack of experience.
To capture the essence of the dangerous and at times seemingly suicidal mission, the film team, led by director Peter Flinth, opted to utilize minimal green screen, relying instead on shooting in the real ice and snow (with...
The movie, which premieres at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 15, stars Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game Of Thrones) and Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders) as two members of a real Danish expedition (the Alabama Expedition) between 1906 and 1908 that sought to prove that Greenland was only one island (which was disputed by the U.S.) by crossing it on foot and sledge.
Coster-Waldau plays Ejnar Mikkelsen, an experienced captain, while Cole plays Iver Iversen, an engineer who volunteers for the perilous trek despite his lack of experience.
To capture the essence of the dangerous and at times seemingly suicidal mission, the film team, led by director Peter Flinth, opted to utilize minimal green screen, relying instead on shooting in the real ice and snow (with...
- 2/14/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau will star in and executive produce a series adaptation of the Christina Clancy novel “The Second Home” currently in the works at Sony’s TriStar TV, Variety has learned.
The story follows the Gordon and Shaw families beyond a fateful summer on Cape Cod. Told through two generations, the story explores how a devastating secret can derail young love, tear apart families, and change the fate of countless individuals forever if they let it. “The Second Home” was Clancy’s debut novel. It was published by St. Martin’s Press in June 2020.
No network or writer is currently attached to the series, but Coster-Waldau will executive produce along with his producing partners Joe Derrick and Jeffrey Chassen under their Ill Kippers banner.
Should the series move forward, it would mark Coster-Waldau’s first television role since “Game of Thrones” ended in 2019. He famously played Jaime Lannister throughout the megahit HBO show’s eight-season run.
The story follows the Gordon and Shaw families beyond a fateful summer on Cape Cod. Told through two generations, the story explores how a devastating secret can derail young love, tear apart families, and change the fate of countless individuals forever if they let it. “The Second Home” was Clancy’s debut novel. It was published by St. Martin’s Press in June 2020.
No network or writer is currently attached to the series, but Coster-Waldau will executive produce along with his producing partners Joe Derrick and Jeffrey Chassen under their Ill Kippers banner.
Should the series move forward, it would mark Coster-Waldau’s first television role since “Game of Thrones” ended in 2019. He famously played Jaime Lannister throughout the megahit HBO show’s eight-season run.
- 4/9/2021
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
The Danish director’s new feature was shot in English and is being produced by Rvk Studios, the outfit behind the Netflix original series Katla and the newly announced Entrapped. A new Icelandic production has recently wrapped principal photography. The feature, entitled Against the Ice and shot in the English language, is helmed by Danish director Peter Flinth, and was penned by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Joe Derrick, who adapted Ejnar Mikkelsen’s 1957 novel Two Against the Ice. The story is set in 1909, when Denmark’s Alabama expedition led by Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen (played by Coster-Waldau) was attempting to disprove the United States’ claim to North-Eastern Greenland, a dispute that was rooted in the idea that Greenland was broken up into two different pieces of land. Leaving the crew behind with the ship, Mikkelsen sleds across the ice with his inexperienced crew member Iver Iversen...
Exclusive: Games of Thrones is done, but the man who brought Jamie Lannister to life is kicking up a production storm.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has joined up with scribe Joe Derrick to form Ill Kippers Productions, I’ve learned. Along with ex-pr guru Jeffrey Chassen as VP and Head of Development, the U.S and Europe-based shingle will focus on both scripted and unscripted projects for a multitude of platforms.
“Jeff and I have worked together for almost 10 years and there is a clear synergy between our tastes and ambitions,” Coster-Waldau told Deadline of bringing publicist Chassen onboard for the new company as a pivotal executive. “This is a brand new journey for all three of us but we all share the same work ethic, drive and passion for storytelling,” the multiple Emmy nominee added. “When I learned that Jeff had chosen to leave the PR game I didn’t hesitate...
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has joined up with scribe Joe Derrick to form Ill Kippers Productions, I’ve learned. Along with ex-pr guru Jeffrey Chassen as VP and Head of Development, the U.S and Europe-based shingle will focus on both scripted and unscripted projects for a multitude of platforms.
“Jeff and I have worked together for almost 10 years and there is a clear synergy between our tastes and ambitions,” Coster-Waldau told Deadline of bringing publicist Chassen onboard for the new company as a pivotal executive. “This is a brand new journey for all three of us but we all share the same work ethic, drive and passion for storytelling,” the multiple Emmy nominee added. “When I learned that Jeff had chosen to leave the PR game I didn’t hesitate...
- 11/23/2019
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
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