Everybody Loves Whales, Right?

Animal movie for director Ken Kwapis

Everybody Loves Whales, Right?

by Helen O’Hara |
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With the exception of those nasty guys with the harpoons on those Japanese ships, Everybody Loves Whales, right? So Warner Bros is in final talks with Ken Kwapis to direct a film of the same name, based on a true story of three gray whales trapped in the Arctic ice.

Now everyone knows that saving the whales is basically a good thing (apart from those guys with the harpoons doing "scientific research") but in 1988 three gray whales trapped in the Arctic ice off Barrow, Alaska* were rescued in a massive international effort - involving icebreaker ships from both the US and USSR (and this in the middle of the Cold War! EVERYBODY loves whales!) carving a path back to open water and helicopters repeatedly dropping concrete blocks on the ice in an attempt to slushy-fy it.

Kwapis is one of the lead directors on the US version of The Office, and previously worked with Warners on comedies Licence To Wed (er...), The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants and He's Just Not That Into You. This will, in other words, be a total change of pace for him. He'll be working from a script by Michael Begler and Jack Amiel, co-writers previously of Raising Helen and The Shaggy Dog. So it'll be a total change of pace for them as well. Let's hope they manage the transition to something a little different.

*Barrow! Yup, the town in 30 Days of Night where all the vampires went and killed everyone!

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