Game of Thrones vets Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Charles Dance are teaming back up for a Netflix movie about a turn-of-the-century expedition into the Arctic.
Father and Son. Tywin and Jaime. Kingslayer and Slayed-on-the-toilet. It’s a time-honored combination, and here in the year of our lord 2021, it’s a combination we’ll return to.
That’s because Game of Thrones stars Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Charles Dance will once again appear on the same screen in the new Netflix film Against the Ice, part of the streaming service’s original programming block for the coming year, which will include at least a movie a week.
The project, co-written by Coster-Waldau, is a Danish-Icelandic survival film about a 1909 expedition to Greenland led by Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen. At the time, the United States was laying claim to North-Eastern Greenland on the basis that the country was actually broken up into two different pieces of land. Mikkelsen intended to prove them wrong.
The movie is based on the book Two Against the Ice, written by Mikkelsen himself. While Coster-Waldau will portray the captain, it’s unknown who Dance will’s role will comprise — surely not his dispassionate father? Joe Cole of Peaky Blinders will be playing inexperienced crew member Iver Iversen.
Danish director Peter Flinth is behind the camera, with Everest and Two Guns director Baltasar Kormákur producing.
Coster-Waldau gave some details to Deadline: “Against The Ice has been a passion project for me from the very beginning,” he said. “It combines a lot of themes that excite me: adventure, Greenland, companionship, loyalty and love. It is an intense exploration of two men, two opposites, trapped in an epic dangerous setting.”
As of yet, no official release date has been confirmed, though production has wrapped.
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