Here's your dose of quick news bits for Dec. 17, 2008...
• Anna Friel stars in and Jesse Eisenberg is in talks to join "The Wedding," about a young man who crashes the wedding of the woman he deeply admires. Max Winkler is writing the script, while Jason Reitman serves as executive producer on the film. (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Scott Charles Stewart is all set to helm "Priest," a horror Western produced by Michael De Luca, among others. Adapted from a comic book, the flick centers on a tough priest who turns his back on the church to free his niece from the hands of a bunch of ruthless vampires. (THR)
• Jannik Johansen's 2005 Danish thriller Mørke is getting the remake treatment, with Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel in talks to write and direct. The original follows a journalist who investigates his sister's unusual death on her weeding night. Sarmiento and Harel also helmed "Deadgirl.
• Anna Friel stars in and Jesse Eisenberg is in talks to join "The Wedding," about a young man who crashes the wedding of the woman he deeply admires. Max Winkler is writing the script, while Jason Reitman serves as executive producer on the film. (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Scott Charles Stewart is all set to helm "Priest," a horror Western produced by Michael De Luca, among others. Adapted from a comic book, the flick centers on a tough priest who turns his back on the church to free his niece from the hands of a bunch of ruthless vampires. (THR)
• Jannik Johansen's 2005 Danish thriller Mørke is getting the remake treatment, with Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel in talks to write and direct. The original follows a journalist who investigates his sister's unusual death on her weeding night. Sarmiento and Harel also helmed "Deadgirl.
- 12/17/2008
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
Indie filmmakers Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel have signed on to write and direct an English remake of the Danish thriller Mørke (Murk). The project is set up at Gold Circle Film with Paul Brooks (Slither) and Matthew Riklin producing. Released in 2005, Mørke details a journalist's investigation into his sister's mysterious death on her wedding night and the whereabouts of her missing fiance. Anders Thomas Jensen co-wrote the original film with Jannik Johansen, who also directed. It starred Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Nicolas Bro and Lærke Winther Andersen. Sarmiento and Harel previously collaborated on the low-budget horror flick Deadgirl, which premiered in the Midnight Madness section of the Toronto International Film Festival in September and will be released next year by Dark Sky Films. Deadgirl is about two high school buddies who find a (kind of) dead girl in the basement of an abandoned mental hospital. The filmmakers plan to add...
- 12/17/2008
- by James Cook
- TheMovingPicture.net
We broke the news exclusively here a few weeks back that Gold Circle Films would be developing a remake to Jannik Johansen and Anders Thomas Jensen's Danish dramatic-thriller Murke (Mørke). Today the huge announcement was made that Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel will be reteaming once again for this crazy thriller. Sarmiento and Harel directed the awesome Deadgirl (from a screenplay by Trent Haaga), which world premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this summer. Murke is the story about Jacob who, after his brain-injured sister dies from supposedly slitting her wrists on her wedding night, follows the trail of her mysterious fiance. Jacob soon finds that this man has a routine of killing crippled brides-to-be, and therefor he must face his sister's death and risk his own life to make sure the self-acclaimed "Angel of Death" does not strike again.
- 12/17/2008
- bloody-disgusting.com
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel, the directing duo behind Deadgirl, will script and direct a remake of the Danish psychothriller Murk (MØRKE, pictured). Genre specialist Gold Circle Films is behind the project.
Directed by Jannik Johansen from a script he wrote with Anders Thomas (Antichrist) Jensen, Murk is about a journalist named Jacob who tries to track down his sister’s mysterious fiancé after she commits suicide. Tracking him to the town of Mørke, Jacob discovers that his sis may not have been the only woman to die badly after becoming involved with him. Sarmiento and Harel will reportedly be adding a “high-tech twist” to their version.
Deadgirl, which Dark Sky Films will release next year, was scripted by Trent Haaga and focuses on a pair of high-school guys who discover a naked, apparently deceased girl in an abandoned asylum. She proves to be alive,...
Directed by Jannik Johansen from a script he wrote with Anders Thomas (Antichrist) Jensen, Murk is about a journalist named Jacob who tries to track down his sister’s mysterious fiancé after she commits suicide. Tracking him to the town of Mørke, Jacob discovers that his sis may not have been the only woman to die badly after becoming involved with him. Sarmiento and Harel will reportedly be adding a “high-tech twist” to their version.
Deadgirl, which Dark Sky Films will release next year, was scripted by Trent Haaga and focuses on a pair of high-school guys who discover a naked, apparently deceased girl in an abandoned asylum. She proves to be alive,...
- 12/17/2008
- Fangoria
Bloody-Disgusting was tipped off this weekend that Gold Circle Films is developing a remake to Jannik Johansen and Anders Thomas Jensen's Danish dramatic-thriller Murk (Mørke). Murke is the story about Jacob who, after his brain-injured sister dies from supposedly slitting her wrists on her wedding night, follows the trail of her mysterious fiance. Jacob soon finds that this man has a routine of killing crippled brides-to-be, and therefor he must face his sister's death and risk his own life to make sure the self-acclaimed "Angel of Death" does not strike again. No writers have been attached yet, watch this spot for more soon.
- 10/5/2008
- bloody-disgusting.com
Pusan International Film Festival
BUSAN, South Korea -- Jannik Johansen's White Night, like the Danish director's psychological thriller Murk, is a character study, here of a successful real estate agent on a downward spiral after an accidental homicide. In the same way Johansen incrementally increased the tension in his earlier pseudo-mystery, he slowly tracks the protagonist's rocky path to healing.
International film festival play is a surety for White Night, and moderate success at home in Denmark is likely. The film also could find audiences in urban markets for distributors willing to take the chance on this small gem.
After closing another big land sale, Ulrik (Lars Brygmann) goes out with some colleagues for drinks, where they happen upon a surly barfly who starts a fight. Some pushing and shoving result in a devastating fall that kills the man. Ulrik is arrested and held overnight but released when the cause of death is determined accidental. Ulrik tries to return to his old life with his glamorous wife, Camilla Anne Sophie Byder), but can't get past an intensifying sense of guilt.
To this end, Ulrik buys a new home for the dead man's impoverished widow, Karina Rikke Louise Andersson), and her two children. Uncomfortable as she is with Ulrik's motives, Karina accepts his generosity at the urging of her sister. Nonetheless, Ulrik slowly alienates those around him, beginning with Camilla, moving on to his shallow friends and co-workers and his lawyer brother, Bertel (Nicolas Bro). Hovering in the background and compounding Ulrik's anguish is the strained relationship with his father, Jacob (Morten Grunwald).
Brygmann, last seen in Clash of Egos, brings the appropriate combination of hangdog sadness and simmering anger to Ulrik, allowing his shifting emotions to come to the fore. Bro, who starred as the widower in Mork, is excellent in his few scenes as the brother caught between estranged family members. Watching him barely flinch when Ulrik hurls abuse at him is a lesson in emotional control.
Ulrik's life is almost impressionistically shot in icy blues (by Jens Maasbol) whenever he confronts his guilt, and in bright color for the world that lies outside his dilemma. If there's a fault in the film, written by its director and veteran filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen, it's the brief running time. At a compact 96 minutes, Ulrik's crushing burden and subsequent change of heart come on rather swiftly with pat logic and expository dialogue that can come across as lecturing, such as Ulrik's realization about the lack of ethics in his work. It's a point bluntly stated as opposed to intuited in this otherwise cerebral film.
WHITE NIGHT
A Nimbus Film, Fine & Mellow production
Credits:
Director: Jannik Johansen
Screenwriters: Anders Thomas Jensen, Jannik Johansen
Producer: Brigitte Skov, Morten Kaufmann
Director of photography: Jens Maasbøl
Production designer: Charlotte Bech
Music: Jens Unmack, Nikolaj Norlund
Editor: Per K. Kirkegaard
Cast:
Ulrik: Lars Brygmann
Karina: Rikke Louise Andersson
Bertel: Nicolas Bro
Jacob: Morten Grunwald
Camilla: Anne Sophie Byder
Running time -- 96 minutes
No MPAA rating...
BUSAN, South Korea -- Jannik Johansen's White Night, like the Danish director's psychological thriller Murk, is a character study, here of a successful real estate agent on a downward spiral after an accidental homicide. In the same way Johansen incrementally increased the tension in his earlier pseudo-mystery, he slowly tracks the protagonist's rocky path to healing.
International film festival play is a surety for White Night, and moderate success at home in Denmark is likely. The film also could find audiences in urban markets for distributors willing to take the chance on this small gem.
After closing another big land sale, Ulrik (Lars Brygmann) goes out with some colleagues for drinks, where they happen upon a surly barfly who starts a fight. Some pushing and shoving result in a devastating fall that kills the man. Ulrik is arrested and held overnight but released when the cause of death is determined accidental. Ulrik tries to return to his old life with his glamorous wife, Camilla Anne Sophie Byder), but can't get past an intensifying sense of guilt.
To this end, Ulrik buys a new home for the dead man's impoverished widow, Karina Rikke Louise Andersson), and her two children. Uncomfortable as she is with Ulrik's motives, Karina accepts his generosity at the urging of her sister. Nonetheless, Ulrik slowly alienates those around him, beginning with Camilla, moving on to his shallow friends and co-workers and his lawyer brother, Bertel (Nicolas Bro). Hovering in the background and compounding Ulrik's anguish is the strained relationship with his father, Jacob (Morten Grunwald).
Brygmann, last seen in Clash of Egos, brings the appropriate combination of hangdog sadness and simmering anger to Ulrik, allowing his shifting emotions to come to the fore. Bro, who starred as the widower in Mork, is excellent in his few scenes as the brother caught between estranged family members. Watching him barely flinch when Ulrik hurls abuse at him is a lesson in emotional control.
Ulrik's life is almost impressionistically shot in icy blues (by Jens Maasbol) whenever he confronts his guilt, and in bright color for the world that lies outside his dilemma. If there's a fault in the film, written by its director and veteran filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen, it's the brief running time. At a compact 96 minutes, Ulrik's crushing burden and subsequent change of heart come on rather swiftly with pat logic and expository dialogue that can come across as lecturing, such as Ulrik's realization about the lack of ethics in his work. It's a point bluntly stated as opposed to intuited in this otherwise cerebral film.
WHITE NIGHT
A Nimbus Film, Fine & Mellow production
Credits:
Director: Jannik Johansen
Screenwriters: Anders Thomas Jensen, Jannik Johansen
Producer: Brigitte Skov, Morten Kaufmann
Director of photography: Jens Maasbøl
Production designer: Charlotte Bech
Music: Jens Unmack, Nikolaj Norlund
Editor: Per K. Kirkegaard
Cast:
Ulrik: Lars Brygmann
Karina: Rikke Louise Andersson
Bertel: Nicolas Bro
Jacob: Morten Grunwald
Camilla: Anne Sophie Byder
Running time -- 96 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 10/8/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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