Tim Blake Nelson has joined John Krasinski and Drew Barrymore in "
Everybody Loves Whales," a Working Title project for Universal.
Set in Cold War-era 1988, "Whales" tells the true story of a small-town news reporter (Krasinski) and a Greenpeace volunteer (Barrymore) who enlist the help of rival superpowers to save three majestic gray whales trapped under the ice of the Arctic Circle.