Cinemystery: Warner Bros. May Be Remaking Ice Station Zebra

Warner Bros. seems to be moving forward with a remake of the 1968 film thriller Ice Station Zebra, which itself was an adaptation of Alistair MacLean's 1963 novel of the same title. (More about the book, below.) Christopher McQuarrie is apparently on board to direct his own screenplay. No other details about the project — which has been in various stages of development for the past few years — are known at this time.

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Ice Station Zebra
Alistair MacLean

The atomic submarine Dolphin has impossible orders: to sail beneath the ice-floes of the Arctic Ocean to locate and rescue the men of weather-station Zebra, gutted by fire and drifting with the ice-pack somewhere north of the Arctic Circle.

But the orders do not say what the Dolphin will find if she succeeds — that the fire at Ice Station Zebra was sabotage, and that one of the survivors is a killer …