Helmer Chosen for Beckinsale’s Whiteout

Posted by support@reallyscary.com (ReallyScary.com) on January 10, 2007 Variety reports Dominic Sena will direct Kate Beckinsale in flick Whiteout, the first movie to go into production under Joel Silver's new Dark Castle Entertainment genre label.

Warner Bros. will distribute the pic, based on Greg Rucka's 1999 comicbook miniseries of the same name. Scribes Jon and Erich Hoeber are adapting for the bigscreen.

Story revolves around a lone U.S. marshal (Beckinsale) stationed in Antarctica who is drawn into a shocking murder investigation. With only three days until winter, she must solve the crime before the continent is plunged into darkness and she is trapped with the killer. Whiteout is set to begin lensing March 5 in Montreal.