Togo, Leonhard Seppala's leader during the 1925 Serum Run
The film project is set up at family-friendly producer Walden Media, which is currently in theaters with “Tooth Fairy.” Producers are eyeing a summer start for the project, which at one point was in development at Miramax under the title “Ice Bound.” According to the film news site FilmShaft, “Hood is looking to sign on and begin filming in the summer (when it will be warmer and they’ll recreate the harsh conditions with CGI and the magic of the movies…wimps).”
The deal marks the first project for Hood since “Wolverine,” which grossed $373 million worldwide last year. His other credits include the South African drama “Tsotsi,” which won the foreign-language Oscar in 2006, and the Iraq war-themed drama “Rendition.”
The Anchorage Daily News noted the news in their Jan. 26 issue, adding, “Whether it will be filmed in Alaska has yet to be specified.”
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May 3rd, 2010 at 8:36 am
Helen,
Been browsing your website, and I wanted to tell you how fascinated I am to be following all of the racing news! I am not an afficinado, but I have friends who are, and it is something in which I do have a small degree of interest (due to its indirect link back into the past in Alaska and Canada).
I am as anxious to see the final product of Walden’s upcoming spin on “The Cruelest Miles” as much as any avid follower of the 1925 serum run, and hope that they will do it justice. Oddly, Walden has made no attempts whatsoever to contact me, considering mine is one of the very few sites pertaining to the serum run (which has any degree of accuracy, and is not based on wild whim, fantasy or the Balto cartoons).
I hope we can work together and perhaps learn off of each other. I would be very happy to foster a working relationship with you! Please contact me by e-mail and let me know if this is feasible!
Regards,
Earl Aversano, webmaster
Balto’s True Story
May 3rd, 2010 at 12:24 pm
This will be a live action movie of the Serum Run without the remake of the cartoon movie of Balto. Its the remade of an true story. And I am positive to speak about in the book. Even positive adults and grown children will always used to make an positive conversation about the two huskies, Balto and Togo. Balto is a gold miner sled dog and Togo is a racing sled dog.
May 4th, 2010 at 8:27 am
Charles,
Actually, Togo was also involved in working the gold fields. He, like many of Seppala’s other dogs, also did time pulling the famous “pupmobile”, and running mining company people (and even tourists) across the tundra from town to town back then. Check “Seppala: Alaskan Dog Driver”, compiled by Elizabeth Ricker, and you will see.
July 11th, 2010 at 6:27 pm
This book are very beautiful nonfiction works of a true story are forgotten by people. And even I can have this book, (I will get it on my birthday or Christmas), We all knew to speak that Balto is a husky, and Togo is a husky. And the animated movie of Balto that show Balto as a wolf dog. And this movie had a two low budget sequal, Balto II: Wolf Quest and Balto III: Wings of Change. Now, the three animated movies of Balto the wolf dog was becoming a fallen and a jitled children films that become a cult classic flick-movies are ever made by Universal.It was all dumb, stupid,less than nothing, and even ridiculous. That make a movie and its sequels. A cult-classic. Before Gavin Hood is making an live action movie of an real life Balto the husky in 2010. Beofre they must finish it at 2012. The plots are not going to ads all filling with gender sterotypes, and even to tell it.
Balto the movie from 1995 was like the Don Bluth film called All Dogs go to Heaven meets Jack London’s White Fang. But Universal and Universal Animation is not going to make the DVD of Balto 4. Because it was too boring to make an film of an next sequal. Now they are doing to make a Curious George DVDs. And a Barbie DVDs. Even not like The Challenge of the Yukon, a.k.a. Sgt. Preston of the Yukon. With the wolf dog name Yukon King.
July 14th, 2010 at 9:42 pm
Forgive my bad written.
Here are the written words in good typing.
This book are very beautiful nonfiction works of a true story are forgotten by people. And even I can have this book, (I will get it on my birthday or Christmas), We all knew to speak that Balto is a husky, and Togo is a husky. And the animated movie of Balto that show Balto as a wolf dog. And this movie had a two low budget sequal, “Balto II: Wolf Quest” and “Balto III: Wings of Change”. Now, the three animated movies of Balto the wolf dog was becoming a fallen and a jitled children films that become a cult classic flick-movies are ever made by Universal. We don’t know if it was all dumb, stupid, less than nothing, nonsense, and even ridiculous? That make a movie and its sequels. A cult-classics. Before Gavin Hood is making an live action movie of an real life Balto the husky in 2010. Beofre they must finish it at 2012. The plots are not going to ads all filling with gender sterotypes, and even to tell it.
Balto the movie from 1995 was like the Don Bluth film called All Dogs go to Heaven meets Jack London’s White Fang. But Universal and Universal Animation is not going to make the DVD of Balto 4. Because it was too boring to make an film of an next sequal. Now they are doing to make a Curious George DVDs. And a Barbie DVDs. Even not like Disney’s “The Lion King”. It’s like The Challenge of the Yukon, a.k.a. Sgt. Preston of the Yukon. With the wolf dog name Yukon King.
You will say something is positive that I am willing to do an willingness of comfort of the book, “The Cruelest Miles”. To write “THe Balto Book”. And such classics.
August 9th, 2010 at 12:01 pm
Hopefully, Gavin Hood will make an live action Balto movie, before it’s finish in 2015. If my thought was right.