Voight with daughter Angelina Jolie. Jon, if you're in town, holler at me. All is forgiven for shooting "Runaway Train" in Montana. (AP Photo/Universal Pictures, Marion Curtis/DMI)

Actor Jon Voight will appear in an upcoming $10 million, supernatural thriller based in Alaska, The Hollywood Reporter says. Josef Rusnak (“The 13 Floor”) is set to direct, according to the site.

So many questions.

Mainly, is this for real? If so, when does filming start? Has it started already, and does it have anything to do with the Tweets and Facebook posts from SprocketHeads advertising for wardrobe personnel and product placement? Or is that a separate project?

How about a sequel to Voight's “Runaway Train,” filmed along the railbelt?

I haven’t been able to get any answers this week from SprocketHeads or Voight’s management company on what, if anything, Voight is working on in Alaska.

Janie Snyder with some of her work in her Fairbanks home. (Eric Engman / Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)

By MARY BETH SMETZER
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

FAIRBANKS -- North Pole resident Janie Snyder was visiting her sister Rosabelle Rexford for Nalukataq, a spring whaling celebration in Barrow, when the unexpected happened.

By KYLE HOPKINS
khopkins@adn.com

“Everybody Loves Whales” returns to downtown Anchorage Thursday for what is expected to be among the most conspicuous, traffic-stopping days of the production, according to paperwork film-makers have filed with the city.

Look for movie crews outside the 4th Avenue Theater downtown, where they plan to film scenes of a press conference, and at the Hotel Captain Cook.

Alaska Dispatch reporter Joshua Saul writes this week about his day behind-the-scenes when the movie was filming at West High School.

Meantime, the National Guard today described working with the film-makers on scenes involving the military and sent a few recent photos from the set:

Pfc. Matthew Blanchett, 297th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade, Alaska Army National Guard, assists 2nd Lt. Charity Mollison, 176th Wing, Alaska Air National Guard with the correct wear of 1980s era Army headgear in preparation for a scene in the upcoming movie “Everybody Loves Whales.” Photo by Pfc. Karina Paraoan, Alaska National Guard Public Affairs Office.

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State Command Sgt. Maj. Gordon Choate prepares a pair of Army cold weather gloves to be worn by a Guardsman as an extra. (Pfc. Karina Paraoan photo.)

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A Guardsman acting as a stand-in is seen climbing the ladder of a CH-54 Skycrane helicopter during filming at Bryant Army Airfield, October 4. Stand-ins are used as temporary replacements for stars providing the production crew a chance to rehearse before filming. (Pfc. Karina Paraoan photo.)

Read the full announcement from National Guard after the break.

From Kyle Hopkins in Anchorage --

The Whales production invaded Fireweed Sunday, where China Garden general manager Danny Chong said he cooked broccoli beef, sweet-and-sour chicken and veggie lo mein for a scene with John Krasinski and Kristen Bell.

As for the rest of the week, a spokeswoman for the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward says the center will close down Friday to make room for the film-makers.

"They will be filming in our Steller sea lion exhibit. We’ve drained and cleaned it in anticipation of their arrival," said Lexie Mizeras.

Stella Thompson, Amanda Dibenedegto, Andrea Hernandez, Sahvanna Thompson and Sebastian Ulz try to get a peek at actress Drew Barrymore during filming of the movie "Everybody Loves Whales" in downtown Anchorage Sept. 30. ( BOB HALLINEN / Anchorage Daily News)

By KYLE HOPKINS
khopkins@adn.com

As "Everybody Loves Whales" ended a second week filming in Anchorage, a consensus began to emerge among the onlookers, extras and hired hands orbiting the $30 million movie production.

Filming begins in Anchorage: Crew members prepare for the first day of filming of the movie Everybody Loves Whales in west Anchorage September 16, 2010.- See more photos

By Kyle Hopkins

Filmmakers on Thursday began shooting the Universal Pictures movie "Everybody Loves Whales" here, launching 10 weeks of filming in Alaska. The scene shot Thursday on the edge of downtown was a simple one: A California family watches news coverage of the media circus that followed the discovery of three gray whales trapped in the sea ice near Barrow.

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Photo by Bill Roth / Anchorage Daily News: Two women reach out to touch one of the California gray whales trapped by ice near Point Barrow in October 1988.
We just got a press release with new details on "Everybody Loves Whales," the film being shot in Alaska and based on the true story of gray whales trapped in the Arctic in 1988 (photo gallery here).

By Kyle Hopkins, July 12, 2010

How's this for a plot twist? The next major movie about Alaska is actually being filmed here. A production company plans to begin shooting "Everybody Loves Whales," a $30 million movie starring Drew Barrymore, this September in Alaska, the executive producer.

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On October 15, 1988, news from Barrow Alaska broke that three California gray whales became trapped by ice in the Arctic Ocean on their migratory journey to Mexico for the winter.

The national media, environmental activists, and both the United States and Soviet Union - in the middle of the Cold War - quickly descended on the tiny village in an effort to escort the whales into open water. Now, 20 years later, a loosely-based motion picture about the ordeal, "Everyone Loves Whales," is being filmed in Alaska.

Read our original coverage here