Ice Road Truckers may get boost to the big screen
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Looking to cash in on the popularity of the History Channel’s breakthrough series on ice road truckers, Twentieth Century Fox has secured the rights to spin the premise of the reality show into an action feature film, the Hollywood gossip magazine Variety reports.
The magazine says Fox will hire a writer shortly and assign a producer to the script.
“Ice Road Truckers” started as a special and quickly became the highest- rated series on the History Channel.
The Ice Road Truckers show documents what life is like for a handful of truckers hauling goods along the frozen Contwoyto seasonal ice road that links Yellowknife with remote mining sites several hundred kilometers away.
As TodaysTrucking.com recently reported, the History Channel is scouting another ice road route for the second season because the haulers that agreed to be part of the reality series are backing away.
The companies claim that the show exaggerates the industry, glorifying the dangers of ice-road driving and depicts professional drivers as cowboys.
A History Channel spokesperson told us that the network has nothing but respect for the truckers and will continue on with a new cast of characters.
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