Having braved harsh conditions in The Road as a younger man, Kodi Smit-McPhee seems like the right person for a tale of long journeys and big challenges. He's on a mission in Alpha, and you can see the first trailer below.
Director Albert Hughes dreamt up the idea and Dan Wiedenhaupt has written a script for Alpha set 20,000 years ago in Europe during the Upper Paleolithic period, which as we all know was a great time to be alive. Sorry, we mean, "harsh and terrifying", since it was the last ice age. Originally named The Solutrean (after a type of tool and weapon construction in the time, with many of the items found at a site at Solutré, France), the movie has now been switched to the more easily marketed version.
Smit-McPhee is a young man who is left for dead after a hunting expedition goes badly wrong must cross miles of dangerous, weather-whipped territory to reunite with his tribe. He unexpectedly joins forces with a wolf, and together the pair must survive lurking threats, most of them with bigger teeth than either partner.
With Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Natassia Malthe and Leonor Varela also in the cast, Alpha will be out in UK cinemas on 9 March next year.