Release Date Set For Graphic Novel-Turned Film ‘Whiteout’

Although excerpts from the film version of Greg Rucka’s Whiteout graphic novel (published by Oni Press) were first shown at Comic-Con in 2007, the firm release date for the film, which stars Kate Beckinsdale as U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko, who has to solve a string of murders at an isolated base in the Antarctica before winter closes in, was not announced until recently. Previously the film had been tentatively scheduled to debut this fall in either September or October, but Warner Bros. Pictures has now made it official—Whiteout will be released on April 24th, 2009. Read more