A Low-brow version of SORCERER set in the Arctic?

I can imagine the pitch meeting for this one.

Writer: "Hey, remember that movie that nobody saw back in the 70's with all the guys with nothing left to lose driving trucks across an inhospitable landscape so they can help fix an environmental disaster? Let's just change it from an oil well fire to a coal mine cave-in, make it three trucks instead of two, and set it on an ice road instead of the rain forest."

One of the 300 Producers of this Film: "Sounds intriguing. Can we make it so that the mine has miners stranded in it who are running out of air, plus set it in the spring so that the ice road the trucks drive on is melting? That'll give it a ticking clock element which will raise the stakes and make it even more suspenseful!"

Writer: "Well, SORCERER had a lot of psychological elements like a shady hit man possibly joining the team just to kill one of the main characters..."

Producer: "That's awesome! More hit men please. Let's also make one of the characters a straight-up evil saboteur and telegraph it right away so that the audience has a villain to boo against."

Writer: "That's maybe a little too on-the-nose. We need the audience to feel a little conflicted or present a character with an arc or something."

Producer: "I know, let's throw in a dark and brooding character who happens to be a tough Native American gal who is also an insufferable social justice activist type. Then we can work in a little bit of propaganda disguised as character development and make the audience guess a little bit at first over who might want to sabotage the mission. This will raise our parent corporation's Environmental Social Governance score, which is more important to us than making a good movie."

Writer: "Par for the course these days. Should I write in some exciting action sequences too like with an avalanche (even though this is set in flat Manitoba) and a treacherous bridge crossing sequence because, remember, I like SORCERER so much."

Producer: "Yes, write in all the ambitious action sequences you want and don't worry about making sure they narratively make any sense or not. Our dozens of producers will pitch in for some poor 90's-style CGI to accomplish it. Nobody will know the difference since they'll be watching on a small screen anyway."

Writer: "Should I write with any stars in mind?"

Producer: "Well, as far as straight to video action stars go, we will need someone a little higher level than Seagal or Van Damme. Bruce Willis is getting close to retirement (write a role for him anyway though, just in case). Let's try for Liam Neeson and Larry Fishburne... plus a couple other washed up guys like Matt McCoy and that one dude from ALIEN³. However, try and write one of those parts small so we can kill him off early and only have to pay for three days of filming."

Writer: "Wow that sounds great, I'll get started right away."