Ice Covers the World in this Trailer for Director Nick Copus' Latest

The writers over at Quiet Earth continue to amaze this reviewer with unique and interesting content; their latest unearthing is the New Zealand shot Ice. This environmental disaster film from director Nick Copus ("The Dead Zone") and English writer James Follett (Quiet Earth) envisions a world in an another looming ice age. Oil supplies have collapsed and the "Greenland Glacier" (Quiet) is melting, with dire consequences for those living across the world. Hundreds of feet of snow cover every major land mass and the film asks: "what will you do, where will you go to survive?" (Ice).

The film is set in the year 2020 and production on this film has recently completed. The distribution company Power will help facilitate Ice's move to theatres and other platforms, but a release date has not been announced for North America. However, a glorious two minute trailer can be found on the film below. Step inside a post-apocalyptic thriller inside!

The synopsis for Ice is here:

"Ice sees the destructive effects of climate change cause unimaginable devastation and panic worldwide as the human race finds itself contemplating the dawn of a new ice age. It is 2020. Findings by environmental scientist Professor Thom Archer suggest that Halo, the corporate energy company drilling on the Greenland Glacier are causing it to melt. Archer's warnings are ignored, so he heads to the Arctic to find indisputable evidence. Upon arrival, he realizes humankind is under immediate threat, and races home to save his family.

The glacier collapses, with devastating consequences. Astonishing weather patterns emerge and plunge the world's temperatures into steep decline. Ice confronts a wholly terrifying and plausible natural disaster of epic proportions. This uncompromising production sees a planet on the brink of annihilation, unleashing an apocalypse with an intensity and magnitude audiences will never forget" (Quiet).

Director: Nick Copus.

Writer: Ray Harding and James Follett.

Cast: Richard Roxburgh, Frances O'Connor, Nathaniel Lees, Tom Hern, Stephen Moyer, Sam Neill, Ben Cross, and Simon Callow.

The film's first trailer:



Sources:

Ice at Quiet Earth

The 1978 book on which the movie is based (James Follett):



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