Several months ago reports reached us that Joe Carnahan’s follow up to his appropriately silly and bombastic big screen rendition of The A-Team was to be a survival drama entitled The Grey and that Carnahan was reuniting with Liam Neeson to bring this story to the screen.

We knew that the film, written by Carnahan and Ian Jeffers, was to centre around a team of oil drillers whose plane crash lands in the Alaskan wilderness where wolves await, now we have a few more details.

Deadline have a new report today, with quotes from Carnahan and some choice comments from visitors to the site about wolves and wolf-related topics, as well as an updated cast list which sees Dallas Roberts, James Badge Dale, Dermot Mulroney, Nonso Anozie, Frank Grillo and Joe Anderson joining Neeson as ‘oil-rig roughnecks’.

So far, so Man Vs. Nature/Frozen starring the cast of Armageddon but it’s going to be an interesting change of budget and pace for Carnahan whose A-Team was undoubtedly fun and inoffensive but also had its huge budget evident in every frame of the film. The film is set to begin shooting next week with forty days in the wilderness scheduled.