American remake?

Hah! Very true. The brilliant Norwegian film Insomnia was remade in the US and set in Alaska. It wasn't terrible, compared with most remakes, but it still got way too slick and lost all the weird atmospherics and interior psychology that made the original so good. The Norwegian film was about the disintegration of the protagonist; the American version, even with Christopher Nolan directing, was all about catching the badguy.

Fortitude is a British production, the Americans do not have something equivalent, so you can still dread the prospect of an American remake of Trapped..

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None apart from the fact it has snow

Americans would never set one of their productions in Canada. The bar is set at "crack-smoking mayor of a major city", in terms of what gets Canada noticed on any significant level, by the USA. They're not going to volunteer free attention for Newfoundland. We Canadians have to keep mentions within our own shows of them being set in Canadian cities to a minimum, to maintain the illusion that they could be taking place in America, for a lot of them to have any appeal across the border. Anything else is too culturally foreign... nevermind that Canadian's have no problem understanding and appreciating a lot of what comes out of the USA >_>

You also couldn't possibly set it in Newfoundland, keeping the accents and culture authentic (and how could you not?), and not have it be a dead giveaway that it's the Canadian-est of Canadian settings.

I doubt that Canada would produce a remake, itself... but then, we can muster our own ideas.

A large part of the atmosphere is provided by the introverted, quiet character of the Icelanders, particularly, of course, Andri & how that contrasts with the terrible events taking place. Hopefully, no remake!