Val Kilmer Starring in Movie about Global Warming Parasite

Global warming offers plenty of nightmare scenarios ripe for Hollywood interpretation, and one of the new ones coming up stars Val Kilmer and focuses on a parasite inside a thawing Wooly Mammoth. Sounds awesome.

Ecorazzi has it:

Well, apparently, a group of student-scientists stumble upon a thawing Woolly Mammoth in a melting ice cap. Unfortunately, the Mammoth is packing a deadly parasite that had laid dormant (and hungry we might add) for thousands of years. One-by-one, everyone becomes infected, all hell breaks loose, and well, you get the picture. According to the synopsis, “soon the survivors are left with only one choice - to make the ultimate sacrifice and burn everything to the ground… including themselves.” Toasty.

Dread Central has the scoop from director Mark A. Lewis:

”I don’t consider it my job to tell people about how or why we’re fucking up the world.” Lewis continues, ”The older I get, the more vulnerable I see people are (as individuals and communities). Global warming is a very scary part of our place in time on this revolving rock in the middle of God knows where. I consider it my job to translate, into a story, the emotions (in particular the fear) I’m experiencing around an issue that is extremely interesting to me. Hopefully people will find the result enjoyable, relatable, and perhaps even cathartic.”

Interesting! The Thaw hasn’t yet started production, but we’ll let you know when a release date is announced.

Link [Ecorazzi] + [Dread Central]