Roum said, "Dominic Sena really loved this book forever, so he's staying very true as much as possible to the tone of it. It's a bigger feeling movie. It has a landscape that's really big. It's very ambitious as a film and very ambitious from a storytelling point of view because you’re dealing with character. It's all about these characters in a very hyped up environment, the south pole. The suspense-thriller aspect of it is there. It's plotted, it's exciting but you're really getting into the interaction between these people in an extreme environment. It’s like being on the moon."