Will Ferrell News: Actor to Star in Film About Traveling to North Pole Aboard a Snow Mobile
Sony Pictures, Temple Hill producers-Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen-and Will Ferrell are teaming up for a movie that will follow the adventures of a group of Minnesota guys who rode their snowmobiles heading to the North Pole in 1968.
The movie will be based on real-life events that were reported by Guy Lawson in his article for The New York Times Magazine, titled "Ice Pack: An Insurance Salesman and a Doctor Walk Into a Bar, and End Up at the North Pole." It will tackle the lives of Ralph Plaisted, Art Aufderhiede, Walter Pederson, Jerry Pitzel, and Jean Luc Bombardier, who were an insurance salesman, doctor, local Honda dealer, geography teacher, and an athletic French Canadian, respectively.
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Prior to their expedition, the group even got sponsors for their whiskey, designer watches and the food used by the Apollo program. Despite failing the psychological stress test, the group still managed to proceed with their expedition to the North Pole.
As they kicked off their saga, they maneuvered their snowmobiles in the frozen Arctic Ocean, where they were treated to a sight and experience of gargantuan ice boulders, bottomless crevices, a span of black water, and hungry bears. Despite the challenges that came with their expedition, the group managed to reach their destination and earned the bragging rights for being the first group to reach the North Pole aboard their snow mobiles.
Meanwhile, "Ice Pack: An Insurance Salesman and a Doctor Walk Into a Bar, and End Up at the North Pole" is not the first article of Lawson that has been adapted for a movie. The article he penned for Rolling Stone, titled "Arms and the Dudes," was adapted to a book. Eventually, Warner Bros. adapted the book into a movie, giving it a title "War Dogs," which is slated for an August 19 release date this year.
