Reese Witherspoon ("Sweet Home Alabama") will star in "Whiteout," reports Variety.
Its an Antarctic whodunit adapted from a series of graphic novels by Greg Rucka.
The Universal Pictures film is the story of a female U.S. marshal living in self-imposed exile in Antarctica. Her quiet life of relative solitude is changed when she is called upon to investigate the first murder on that continent.
As yet, no writer or director is attached.