Apparently one of Drew’s upcoming films, Everybody Loves Whales is set to be filmed in Alaska. Check it out:

A production company plans to begin shooting “Everybody Loves Whales,” a $30 million movie starring Drew Barrymore, this September in Alaska, the executive producer said Friday.

The film is based on the 1988 attempt to rescue three gray whales trapped by sea ice near Barrow, though the majority of filming will take place in Anchorage. Barrymore plays a Greenpeace worker while John Krasinski — Jim from NBC’s “The Office” — portrays a small-town news reporter covering the story.

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News have been a bit slow lately but here’s an article from Collider which tells us that Drew’s co-stars in Everybody Loves Whales, among others, will be Ken Kwapis and John Krasinski. Some new information about the movie is also featured.

John Krasinski and Drew Barrymore are set to star in director Ken Kwapis’ (License to Wed) Whales. Universal Pictures hopes to shoot this fall – depending on Krasinski’s Office schedule. The movie is based on a real event from 1988 when a trio of California gray whales got trapped under the ice in the Arctic Circle.

Krasinski will play a small town newspaper reporter who breaks the story. Barrymore plays a Greenpeace activist, and they turn the potential tragedy into an international story. The incident created a temporary Cold War thaw as President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev found a common cause. They interceded to save the whales.

Since certain countries hunt whales and the magnificent creatures are still threatened (how quickly everyone forgot what Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home taught us), I’m on board with any movie that might help save some of them in the future. Even if Ken Kwapis is directing it.

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In an interview Drew did with Access Hollywood at the press room at this year’s GLAAD, she confirms Everybody Loves Whales and a filming schedule for the movie set for this fall. Watch the interview HERE.