After a career-making turn in last year’s outrageous hit comedy The Hangover, Bradley Cooper is quickly becoming the new Ryan Reynolds. The 35-year-old actor stars in this week’s high-profile, all-star rom-com Valentine’s Day and will be seen as The Face Man in this summer’s big screen adaptation of The A-Team.

This, of course, means nothing to horror fans. We’re still waiting to see how he follows 2008’s brutally violent supernatural slasher The Midnight Meat Train. Well, today, Variety reports that Cooper is in talks to star in director Joe Carnahan’s The Grey.

Budgeted at $34 million, the film follows a group of plane crash survivors as they are hunted down by rogue wolves (are there any other kind?). Ridley and Tony Scott are attached as producers through their Scott Free banner.

(Update: Cooper has been replaced by Liam Neeson)