A new movie starring James Remar, aka Dexter’s dear old dead dad, began filming in Fairbanks, Alaska this month.
The film, entitled Unnatural, follows a man-eating mutant polar bear that is terrorizing bikini-clad supermodels in fishing lodges across the Alaska wilderness (seriously).
Sherilyn Fenn (Twin Peaks), Q’orianka Kilcher, and Graham Greene (Dances With Wolves) also star.
Crews have been filming along the frozen Tanana River and, unlike other parts of the country, the weather has been rather mild – by Alaska stands, anyway.
“It’s like being in outer space,” Remar said of shooting on the frozen landscape. “The environment dictates everything … You mess up with the cold here and it can permanently damage you if not kill you. In other ways it’s an asset because at least I don’t have to fake being cold, fake that I’m feeling challenged by the elements — the challenge is real, so that just embodies the whole thing. You’re just going to have all these wonderful running shots of the Alaskan wilderness just running by and you just can’t fake that. You can’t buy it. You can’t CGI it. It’s really something that you can only get by being here.”
Unnatural is expected to be released next winter.
