Ted Danson and Vinessa Shaw have joined the cast of "
Everybody Loves Whales," a Working Title project that Ken Kwapis is directing for Universal.
Set in Cold War-era 1988, "Whales" tells the true story of a small-town reporter (John Krasinski) and a Greenpeace volunteer (Drew Barrymore) who enlist the help of rival superpowers to save three majestic gray whales trapped under the ice of the Arctic Circle.