![]() ![]() It was the first time in my life that I’ve been evacuated from a film set, which was very exciting!” He trusted in his crew and co-producer, the Icelandic Baltasar Kormákur, to make the call when the conditions went from difficult to dangerous. They had to evacuate us because it was now so dangerous to be on that glacier. He was in his van and suddenly rocks came flying through the windows. We had a video assist man who was sitting a little down the mountain. But it just got worse and worse and worse. The weather service kept saying, Listen, by noon, it’ll calm down. “We had a storm one day while on a glacier. I just have to react to whatever happens around me.” Coster-Waldau, a Danish actor with family ties to and a lifelong fascination with Greenland, had spent time in these environments, but there were still many surprises to experience when filming on Iceland’s second-largest ice cap, Langjökull. ![]() As a selfish thing, as an actor, it makes my job easier. ![]() Whatever you see in the movie, everything is as it was. “We wanted to capture these things, and we were incredibly lucky with the weather. Writer, producer, and star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau was just as passionate as his director that they needed to film this story on location, using all of the elements that Mikkelsen and Iversen had to endure. They knew that the ice was too thin to go across.” The next day when we passed, it had all opened up into the sea. We were going to cross a frozen fjord and suddenly the dogs just took off, turned away. I learned that myself on a research trip a couple of years back. “Greenlandic dogs, sled dogs, would never go onto a piece or a stretch of ice that is not safe. “Greenlanders know the country so well, and the nature,” Flinth says. It was on one of his research trips to Greenland that he learned the importance of sled dogs and of the crew of locals the filmmakers assembled to be their guides to the landscape. “What I did in my research was to actually travel up on the Northeastern side of Greenland in the footsteps of Ejnar Mikkelsen, to see all the places he had been.” The areas visited were so remote, and with a film production industry just beginning in Greenland, the filmmaker looked for similar landscapes in more accessible parts of the country, as well as in Iceland, where they could shoot the film. “We developed the script in a way where we wanted to be very true to the circumstances the real men were in,” says Flinth, who first read the book over ten years ago. While Mikkelsen and Iversen found the proof they needed within months, they became stranded in the most extreme of conditions for almost three years. The story is brought to the screen by Flinth and his screenwriters (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Joe Derrick), and stars Coster-Waldau ( Game of Thrones) and Joe Cole ( Peaky Blinders).īased on the book Two Against the Ice, a firsthand, nonfiction account by twentieth century Danish explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen of his journey into remote north Greenland, Against the Ice follows Mikkelsen (Coster-Waldau) as he sets off on dog sledges, with just one inexperienced crewmember, Iver Iversen (Joe Cole) on a daring trek to recover the map that proves Greenland belongs to his native territory, Denmark, not to the United States. “Listen to your sled dog.” That’s one of the first tips director Peter Flinth learned in making his latest expedition adventure film, Against the Ice.
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