Babak Najafi will direct the thriller for Nordic studio Svensk Filmindustri.
Svensk beat off other bidders to acquire the original spec script written by Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken, who recently wrote 10 Cloverfield Lane for Jj Abrams.
Horizon Line is a a suspense thriller that follows a couple on a small airplane that loses its way over the Pacific Ocean.
The film will soon start casting ahead of an autumn shoot.
Fredrik Wikström Nicastro will produce for Svensk Filmindustri and Jonas Fors, CEO of Svensk Filmindustri, will executive produce.
Najafi previously directed Berlin award-winner Sebbe and has London Has Fallen launching next month
Campbell and Stuecken reunite with Wikstrom Nicastro after having written the English-language remake Easy Money.
Wikstrom Nicastro said, “I am thrilled to continue the fruitful and creative collaboration with director Babak Najafi and such talented writers as Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken. Horizon Line is one of the most suspenseful, original scripts...
Svensk beat off other bidders to acquire the original spec script written by Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken, who recently wrote 10 Cloverfield Lane for Jj Abrams.
Horizon Line is a a suspense thriller that follows a couple on a small airplane that loses its way over the Pacific Ocean.
The film will soon start casting ahead of an autumn shoot.
Fredrik Wikström Nicastro will produce for Svensk Filmindustri and Jonas Fors, CEO of Svensk Filmindustri, will executive produce.
Najafi previously directed Berlin award-winner Sebbe and has London Has Fallen launching next month
Campbell and Stuecken reunite with Wikstrom Nicastro after having written the English-language remake Easy Money.
Wikstrom Nicastro said, “I am thrilled to continue the fruitful and creative collaboration with director Babak Najafi and such talented writers as Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken. Horizon Line is one of the most suspenseful, original scripts...
- 2/10/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Co-pros include English-language Easy Money, Henning Mankell TV series.
Svensk Filmindustri (Sf) and Studiocanal have entered an agreement that includes an all rights, output distribution deal for Sf on all new Studiocanal films in the Nordic market (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland) and the digital distribution by Sf of Studiocanal catalogue titles.
The deal also comprises coproduction based on English-speaking Nordic features and TV-series from Sf properties.
Sf will handle the Nordic markets for the co-productions and Studiocanal will distribute them internationally.
StudioCanal’s upcoming titles to be distributed by Sf include Paddington, Shaun the Sheep, Our Kind of Traitor, Macbeth, Legend and Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino’s Untitled Pantelleria).
Two feature co-productions are currently being developed: Easy Money (Snabba Cash), the English-language remake of the Swedish 2010 box office hit, and the Ibiza-set thriller The White Island, to be directed by Jens Jonsson.
Sf and Studiocanal are also developing two TV series. This first is...
Svensk Filmindustri (Sf) and Studiocanal have entered an agreement that includes an all rights, output distribution deal for Sf on all new Studiocanal films in the Nordic market (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland) and the digital distribution by Sf of Studiocanal catalogue titles.
The deal also comprises coproduction based on English-speaking Nordic features and TV-series from Sf properties.
Sf will handle the Nordic markets for the co-productions and Studiocanal will distribute them internationally.
StudioCanal’s upcoming titles to be distributed by Sf include Paddington, Shaun the Sheep, Our Kind of Traitor, Macbeth, Legend and Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino’s Untitled Pantelleria).
Two feature co-productions are currently being developed: Easy Money (Snabba Cash), the English-language remake of the Swedish 2010 box office hit, and the Ibiza-set thriller The White Island, to be directed by Jens Jonsson.
Sf and Studiocanal are also developing two TV series. This first is...
- 9/4/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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