The Cruelest Miles

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Walden Media and Johnson Trek Cruelest Miles
Source: Variety
June 26, 2008


Walden Media is reteaming with "The Chronicles of Narnia" producer Mark Johnson to tell the true story of a team of men and sled dogs that braved temperatures of 60 below to save an Alaskan town from a deadly epidemic in 1925, says Variety.

Walden acquired rights to "The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic," a book by Gay and Laney Salisbury.

Sean O'Keefe and Will Staples will write the script.

The novel tells the story of how a team of 20 men and more than 200 sled dogs undertook a 674-mile race against time to deliver a vaccine to combat an incipient epidemic of diphtheria afflicting a Gold Rush town deep in Alaska.

I absolutely love the sound of this.

 

[tzarinna]

Yeah, this sounds really good.

 

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Gavin Hood Heading on Alaskan Adventure

Source:The Hollywood Reporter
January 26, 2010

Gavin Hood (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) is in talks to direct an adaptation of Gay and Laney Salisbury's book "The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic" for Walden Media and producer Mark Johnson.

The following is how publisher W.W. Norton & Co. describes the book:

In 1925, a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through icebound Nome, Alaska. The life-saving serum was a thousand miles away, and a blizzard was brewing. Airplanes could not fly in such conditions: only the dogs could do it. Racing against death, twenty dog teams relayed the serum across the Alaskan wilderness as newspapers nationwide headlined the drama, enthralling an entire generation. The heroic dash to Nome inspired the annual Iditarod Dog Sled Race in Alaska and immortalized Balto, the lead dog whose arrival in Nome over a snow-blown trail was an American legend in the making. His bronze statue still stands in New York City's Central Park, in dedication to the "Endurance, Fidelity and Intelligence" of the dogs that saved Nome. This is their story, the greatest dog story never fully told, until now.

Sean O'Keefe and Will Staples wrote the adaptation, which is targeted for a summer start.

 

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This sounds like a live action version of this one animated film I saw years ago. I can't remember the name of it but this guy and his sled dogs have to travel to this town to get medicine for this girl who is dying.

 

[Hunter Rider]

This sounds like a live action version of this one animated film I saw years ago. I can't remember the name of it but this guy and his sled dogs have to travel to this town to get medicine for this girl who is dying.

That would be the same story in animated form, the movie was called "Balto" after the lead dog.