Prime Video is diving into genre in the Nordics with a new slate of shows, including the Swedish mystery crime series “Blind Spot” starring Ida Engvoll (“Love & Anarchy”) and Pål Sverre Hagen (“Furia”), and Henrik Georgsson (“The Bridge”)’s dystopian thriller “Vaka,” starring Emmy-award nominated Jonas Karlsson and Aliette Opheim.
Based on Anne Holt’s best-selling novel “1222” which revolves around the character of Hanne Wilhelmsen, a sharp and dark-minded police officer. The series, penned by celebrated author Sara Heldt (“Sandhamn Murders”) together with Erik Skjoldberg (“Occupied”), follows Hanne who finds herself sheltered in an isolated mountain hotel after a train crash and starts investigating on mysterious murders even though she’s been temporarily suspended from the police.
“Blind Spot” is co-produced by Amazon MGM Studios and Nordic Drama Queens, in association with Fifth Season which represents the show outside of the Nordic region. Skjoldberg is directing all four episodes of the series.
Based on Anne Holt’s best-selling novel “1222” which revolves around the character of Hanne Wilhelmsen, a sharp and dark-minded police officer. The series, penned by celebrated author Sara Heldt (“Sandhamn Murders”) together with Erik Skjoldberg (“Occupied”), follows Hanne who finds herself sheltered in an isolated mountain hotel after a train crash and starts investigating on mysterious murders even though she’s been temporarily suspended from the police.
“Blind Spot” is co-produced by Amazon MGM Studios and Nordic Drama Queens, in association with Fifth Season which represents the show outside of the Nordic region. Skjoldberg is directing all four episodes of the series.
- 3/14/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Swedish filmmaker Mika Gustafson shifts from the docu world beginnings to her fiction feature debut in Paradise is Burning – a selection in the 2023 Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti section. Winner of the Best Director award, Gustafson infuses her world of children (here three sisters) fending for themselves in their free-wielding carefree spirits with a template that dismantles cliched representations of what it might look like to defend a fort that is without a caring adult. As the character Hannah, portrayed by Ida Engvoll, makes her entrance, we embark on a journey of exploration into previously uncharted depths. Gustafson employs a visual poetry that mirrors a world characterized by compassion interwoven with turmoil. …...
- 10/15/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Rome-based Intramovies has picked up sales rights to Swedish up-and-coming filmmaker Mika Gustafson’s “Sisters,” ahead of the film’s pitch as a work in progress at Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market, which runs Feb. 2-5.
The film is being produced by Nima Yousefi for Stockholm-based Hobab, behind the multi-awarded “Clara Sola” by Nathalie Álvarez Mesen.
European co-producers on board “Sisters” take in Italy s’ Intramovies, Denmark’s Toolbox Film and Finland’s Tuffi Films.
Intramovies’ head of acquisitions and production Marco Valerio Fusco said “being the Italian co-producers, we loved the project since its inception, and were very excited by the film’s potential, the impressive script and all talents involved.
“For the good of the film, we didn’t put any pre-emption on the title, leaving the door open to any other possible sales agent. Then when Nima offered us to come on board, we immediately accepted,” said...
The film is being produced by Nima Yousefi for Stockholm-based Hobab, behind the multi-awarded “Clara Sola” by Nathalie Álvarez Mesen.
European co-producers on board “Sisters” take in Italy s’ Intramovies, Denmark’s Toolbox Film and Finland’s Tuffi Films.
Intramovies’ head of acquisitions and production Marco Valerio Fusco said “being the Italian co-producers, we loved the project since its inception, and were very excited by the film’s potential, the impressive script and all talents involved.
“For the good of the film, we didn’t put any pre-emption on the title, leaving the door open to any other possible sales agent. Then when Nima offered us to come on board, we immediately accepted,” said...
- 1/19/2023
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Sisters
After trying her hand in the docu realm, Swedish filmmaker Mika Gustafson made the move into fiction last June with what has be coined as a female-led drama. Non-actors Bianca Delbravo, Dilvin Asaad and Safira Mossberg joined Ida Engvoll in Sisters – a tale about fending for yourself when mom is gone. Supported by Eurimages coin in March 2022, this was produced by Nima Yousefi. on paper, we got some Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Nobody Knows vibes. Gustafson wrote the project alongside actor-screenwriter Alexander Öhrstrand.
Gist: Ida Engvoll plays Hanna, a young woman drawn into an unexpected adventure when she encounters Laura (16), eldest of a trio of socially-deprived sisters.…...
After trying her hand in the docu realm, Swedish filmmaker Mika Gustafson made the move into fiction last June with what has be coined as a female-led drama. Non-actors Bianca Delbravo, Dilvin Asaad and Safira Mossberg joined Ida Engvoll in Sisters – a tale about fending for yourself when mom is gone. Supported by Eurimages coin in March 2022, this was produced by Nima Yousefi. on paper, we got some Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Nobody Knows vibes. Gustafson wrote the project alongside actor-screenwriter Alexander Öhrstrand.
Gist: Ida Engvoll plays Hanna, a young woman drawn into an unexpected adventure when she encounters Laura (16), eldest of a trio of socially-deprived sisters.…...
- 1/12/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
"I dreamed of working with food, but then I got pregnant early." Samuel Goldwyn Films has revealed an official US trailer for an indie romantic comedy from Sweden titled Food and Romance, which is the very generic English title for this movie originally known as Tuesday Club (or Tisdagsklubben) in Swedish. A sudden change discovering her husband is cheating forces Karin to re-evaluate her life. With the help of friends, food and passion she refuses to accept that life has an expiration date and takes the second chance she is given to explore her passions and find new love. This almost seems like Sweden's version of Eat Pray Love. Of course she'll find love again when she gets obsessed with food!! This stars Marie Richardson, Peter Stormare, Ida Engvoll, Björn Kjellman, Sussie Ericsson, Carina M. Johansson, & Maria Sid. It looks charming and spunky, with an unexpected twist of Stormare being...
- 11/2/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Appearing via video, the director was in good spirits.
Danish director Lars von Trier has hinted he will keep working despite his diagnosis with Parkinson’s disease, which he said made him have “a rotten time” while shooting Exodus, the third season of his series The Kingdom.
Appearing via video link at the Venice press conference for the show, von Trier provided an update on his condition, which he announced last month through his Zentropa producer Louise Vesth. His limbs and lower lip were shaking – a common symptom of Parkinson’s – but his speech was clear.
“I think I’m doing good,...
Danish director Lars von Trier has hinted he will keep working despite his diagnosis with Parkinson’s disease, which he said made him have “a rotten time” while shooting Exodus, the third season of his series The Kingdom.
Appearing via video link at the Venice press conference for the show, von Trier provided an update on his condition, which he announced last month through his Zentropa producer Louise Vesth. His limbs and lower lip were shaking – a common symptom of Parkinson’s – but his speech was clear.
“I think I’m doing good,...
- 9/1/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
It’s Swedish female filmmaker day here on the site. Isabella Carbonell is headed to Venice with Dogborn and Mika Gustafson is about to set sail with Sisters – a feature debut that will incorporate non-professionals with the newly cast Ida Engvoll toplining and leading the pack. Three young sisters live alone as their mother keeps disappearing for long periods of time. When social services demand a meeting, oldest sister Laura (Engvoll) must find someone to play their mom to avoid them being placed in foster care and split up. Variety reports that Sisters will move into production fairly soon with producer Nima Yousefi aiming to get this ready for next year’s Cannes.…...
- 8/25/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Swedish helmer Mika Gustafson, one of a roster of promising Swedish voices with “Clara Sola”’s Natalie Álvarez-Mesén at Stockholm-based Hobab, has finalised the cast for her directorial debut “Sisters.”
The feature is in final stages of filming, and co-produced by Italy’s Intramovies, Denmark’s Toobox and Finland’s Tuffi Films.
Ida Engvoll, who broke out in Netflix romcom “Love & Anarchy,” plays Hanna, a young woman drawn into an unexpected adventure when she encounters Laura (16), eldest of a trio of socially-deprived sisters.
Laura asks Hanna to “play” their mum when social services come knocking at the sisters’ doors, threatening to separate them and place them in a foster home. But when Hanna shows her affection, Laura loses control and starts spiralling downwards.
Gustafson who was trained at Ruben Östlund’s auteur-driven Valand film school in Götenborg, said in a statement that she was inspired “by the playfulness of the French New Wave,...
The feature is in final stages of filming, and co-produced by Italy’s Intramovies, Denmark’s Toobox and Finland’s Tuffi Films.
Ida Engvoll, who broke out in Netflix romcom “Love & Anarchy,” plays Hanna, a young woman drawn into an unexpected adventure when she encounters Laura (16), eldest of a trio of socially-deprived sisters.
Laura asks Hanna to “play” their mum when social services come knocking at the sisters’ doors, threatening to separate them and place them in a foster home. But when Hanna shows her affection, Laura loses control and starts spiralling downwards.
Gustafson who was trained at Ruben Östlund’s auteur-driven Valand film school in Götenborg, said in a statement that she was inspired “by the playfulness of the French New Wave,...
- 8/24/2022
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
It’s hard to describe what Ida Engvoll does on “Love & Anarchy” as anything other than a magic trick. There’s a moment early in Season 2 of Lisa Langseth’s Netflix series involving a cup of coffee that’s somehow wilder and funnier and more believable than it has any right to be. Part of the thrill of “Love & Anarchy” is that the characters at the heart of it often seem surprised in the same way. Whether it’s a secret kiss, a coworker walking into a meeting in slippers, or a transformative weekend retreat, watching these people continually pinch themselves to remind them that what’s happening in front of them is actually happening is what helps make this show a top-tier Netflix viewing experience.
Sofie (Engvoll) finds herself in plenty of those moments early on in “Love & Anarchy” as the incoming new high-powered consultant at Stockholm-area publishing house Lund & Lagerstedt,...
Sofie (Engvoll) finds herself in plenty of those moments early on in “Love & Anarchy” as the incoming new high-powered consultant at Stockholm-area publishing house Lund & Lagerstedt,...
- 6/17/2022
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
[This post originally appeared as part of Recommendation Machine, IndieWire’s daily TV picks feature.]
Where to Watch ‘Love & Anarchy’: Netflix
If you took out all the flirting from “Love & Anarchy” (though why on earth would you ever do such a thing), what’s left is still a pretty solid workplace comedy. A Stockholm-area publishing house has its share of backward-facing execs, eminently more capable employees lower on the organizational chart, and one receptionist/secretary often baffled by what plays out in front of her desk.
But understandably, the hook of this series is the gradual escalation between Sofie (Ida Engvoll), the company’s new publishing consultant and Max (Björn Mosten), the temporary It specialist who makes a noisy first impression. Much of the opening episodes is devoted to showing how one accidental after-hours interaction sets the template for a series of in-office dares between the two. What starts as a potential dark story of blackmail...
Where to Watch ‘Love & Anarchy’: Netflix
If you took out all the flirting from “Love & Anarchy” (though why on earth would you ever do such a thing), what’s left is still a pretty solid workplace comedy. A Stockholm-area publishing house has its share of backward-facing execs, eminently more capable employees lower on the organizational chart, and one receptionist/secretary often baffled by what plays out in front of her desk.
But understandably, the hook of this series is the gradual escalation between Sofie (Ida Engvoll), the company’s new publishing consultant and Max (Björn Mosten), the temporary It specialist who makes a noisy first impression. Much of the opening episodes is devoted to showing how one accidental after-hours interaction sets the template for a series of in-office dares between the two. What starts as a potential dark story of blackmail...
- 12/12/2021
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
In this week’s International TV Newswire, Netflix goes back to the Flx well in Sweden, “The Bureau” is selected to close Canneseries, BBC4 picks up two new series for its Saturday night lineup, Endemol Shine announces a “Love is Forever” spinoff in Spain, and Conecta Fiction earns the honor of selecting this year’s International Emmy Short-Form semi-finalists.
Netflix Commissions Third Swedish Original, “Love & Anarchy”
Created by Swedish screenwriter Lisa Langseth, “Love & Anarchy” has been announced as Netflix’s third Original Series from Sweden. Production company Flx will produce, marking the renewal of a partnership with Netflix which began when the company produced the platform’s first Swedish Original, “Quicksand.” “Love & Anarchy” follows Sofie, played by “A Man Called Ove’s” Ida Engvoll, a career driven consultant and mother of two assigned to modernize an outdated publishing house. Upon her arrival, a flirty relationship kicks off with young It tech Max,...
Netflix Commissions Third Swedish Original, “Love & Anarchy”
Created by Swedish screenwriter Lisa Langseth, “Love & Anarchy” has been announced as Netflix’s third Original Series from Sweden. Production company Flx will produce, marking the renewal of a partnership with Netflix which began when the company produced the platform’s first Swedish Original, “Quicksand.” “Love & Anarchy” follows Sofie, played by “A Man Called Ove’s” Ida Engvoll, a career driven consultant and mother of two assigned to modernize an outdated publishing house. Upon her arrival, a flirty relationship kicks off with young It tech Max,...
- 2/14/2020
- by Jamie Lang and John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix is going beyond Nordic Noir with Love & Anarchy, a new Scandinavian original series from Swedish producer Flx (Quicksand) and writer/director Lisa Langseth (Euphoria, Pure).
The comedic drama stars A Man Called Ove actress Ida Engvoll as Sofie, a career-driven consultant and married mother of two whose well-ordered life is thrown off course. When Sofie gets an assignment to modernize an old publishing house, she meets young It tech Max (first-timer Björn Mosten), and begins a flirtatious game where the two secretly challenge each other to do things that question societal norms. What starts innocently soon becomes serious as the ...
The comedic drama stars A Man Called Ove actress Ida Engvoll as Sofie, a career-driven consultant and married mother of two whose well-ordered life is thrown off course. When Sofie gets an assignment to modernize an old publishing house, she meets young It tech Max (first-timer Björn Mosten), and begins a flirtatious game where the two secretly challenge each other to do things that question societal norms. What starts innocently soon becomes serious as the ...
- 2/12/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Author: Linda Marric
Nominated for two Academy Awards and adapted from Fredrik Backman’s 2012 novel of the same name, A Man Called Ove tells a touching story which centres around themes of love, death and the infinite wonder of the human condition. Directed by Hannes Holm who also wrote the screenplay, this brilliantly crafted Swedish black comedy depicts one of the most genuinely touching stories you will come across this year. Comparisons with last year’s other European surprise hit Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade) are understandable considering that both films feature men of a certain age dealing with existential crises, yet the similarities end here.
Fifty nine year old Ove (Rolf Lassgård) has been widowed for a year since losing his wife Sonja (Ida Engvoll) to cancer. After being made redundant from the only job he has ever had, Ove decides that life is no longer worth living without his soulmate,...
Nominated for two Academy Awards and adapted from Fredrik Backman’s 2012 novel of the same name, A Man Called Ove tells a touching story which centres around themes of love, death and the infinite wonder of the human condition. Directed by Hannes Holm who also wrote the screenplay, this brilliantly crafted Swedish black comedy depicts one of the most genuinely touching stories you will come across this year. Comparisons with last year’s other European surprise hit Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade) are understandable considering that both films feature men of a certain age dealing with existential crises, yet the similarities end here.
Fifty nine year old Ove (Rolf Lassgård) has been widowed for a year since losing his wife Sonja (Ida Engvoll) to cancer. After being made redundant from the only job he has ever had, Ove decides that life is no longer worth living without his soulmate,...
- 6/29/2017
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
A Scrooge-like character spends his life railing against his neighbours – and trying to kill himself – in a drama that’s not funny, or sad or interesting
Here is a well-intentioned but tiresomely glib piece of sentimental whimsy from Sweden, based on a bestselling novel. It’s similar in many ways to that other Swedish heartwarmer The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.
A Scroogey old grump called Ove (Rolf Lassgård) goes about the locality being bad-tempered and disagreeable and enforcing neighbourhood-watch-type rules that he himself has made up. But we find out a little about his late wife Sonja (Ida Engvoll) and about the tough breaks that Ove has had along the way, which explain how this shy young man became a cantankerous old devil. Then some new young neighbours give him a chance at happiness and redemption.
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Here is a well-intentioned but tiresomely glib piece of sentimental whimsy from Sweden, based on a bestselling novel. It’s similar in many ways to that other Swedish heartwarmer The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.
A Scroogey old grump called Ove (Rolf Lassgård) goes about the locality being bad-tempered and disagreeable and enforcing neighbourhood-watch-type rules that he himself has made up. But we find out a little about his late wife Sonja (Ida Engvoll) and about the tough breaks that Ove has had along the way, which explain how this shy young man became a cantankerous old devil. Then some new young neighbours give him a chance at happiness and redemption.
Continue reading...
- 6/29/2017
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
A Man Called Ove (En man som heter Ove) is a humanist piece of new Sweden cinema originally released in 2015, reminiscent of last year’s excellent work, Rams, from nearby Iceland. Both films carefully explore emotion after tragedy and offer knockout protagonist and supporting character performances. While the storyline here is not new—a group of young souls soften the heart of a persnickety elder—the film’s elegance, led by writer/director Hannes Holm adapting the story from Fredrik Backman, is pitch perfect in situating us as bystanders with just enough distance from the characters to develop a healthy pathos. By healthy pathos, I mean that we never, truly, can characterize Ove (Rolf Lassgård), who is mourning the loss of his wife, as evil; if we have inklings of this we are pushed to see beyond his behaviors. This doesn’t mean we don’t let him off the hook,...
- 4/15/2017
- by Dina Paulson-McEwen
- CinemaNerdz
Rolf Lassgard as Ove in the Swedish dark comedy A Man Called Ove. Photo courtesy of Music Box Films ©
In the Swedish dark comedy A Man Called Ove, director/scriptwriter Hannes Holm takes us on a roller-coaster trip through the life of old curmudgeon. Ove (Rolf Lassgard) is the kind of guy every neighborhood seems to have, the obsessively neat, angry rule-enforcer who checks up on things and sees that everyone follows the rules – all of them.
Ove cracks down on his neighbors during his daily rounds to check up on things, a habit left over from when he was the chair of the neighborhood committee. But Ove definitely is not a friendly neighbor. Basically, this crabby widower just wants to be left alone. Recently widowed, he visits his late wife Sonja’s (Ida Engvoll) grave every day, to bring flowers and complain. Suddenly without a job at age 59, he decides to join her.
In the Swedish dark comedy A Man Called Ove, director/scriptwriter Hannes Holm takes us on a roller-coaster trip through the life of old curmudgeon. Ove (Rolf Lassgard) is the kind of guy every neighborhood seems to have, the obsessively neat, angry rule-enforcer who checks up on things and sees that everyone follows the rules – all of them.
Ove cracks down on his neighbors during his daily rounds to check up on things, a habit left over from when he was the chair of the neighborhood committee. But Ove definitely is not a friendly neighbor. Basically, this crabby widower just wants to be left alone. Recently widowed, he visits his late wife Sonja’s (Ida Engvoll) grave every day, to bring flowers and complain. Suddenly without a job at age 59, he decides to join her.
- 10/14/2016
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Chicago – In 2012, Fredrik Backman released his Swedish novel called “En man som heter Ove.” It was published in English in 2013, and became a best seller. The book that delved into the life of a cranky old man is now a major Swedish movie, distributed in the U.S. by Chicago’s Music Box Films, and directed by Hannes Holm.
Holms is a veteran film director from Sweden, who started out as a comic actor on Swedish television. His third film, “Adam & Eva,” broke into European markets, but “A Man Called Ove” is his first worldwide release. The film is also Sweden’s official entry in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the upcoming Oscars – which Holms calls “a lottery.” He spoke to HollywoodChicago.com last weekend, in anticipation of the U.S. release of the film on September 30th, 2016.
Bahar Pars and Rolf Lassgard in ‘A Man Called Ove...
Holms is a veteran film director from Sweden, who started out as a comic actor on Swedish television. His third film, “Adam & Eva,” broke into European markets, but “A Man Called Ove” is his first worldwide release. The film is also Sweden’s official entry in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the upcoming Oscars – which Holms calls “a lottery.” He spoke to HollywoodChicago.com last weekend, in anticipation of the U.S. release of the film on September 30th, 2016.
Bahar Pars and Rolf Lassgard in ‘A Man Called Ove...
- 9/29/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
A Man Called Ove (En man som heter Ove) Music Box Films Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B+ Director: Hannes Holm Written by: Hannes Holm based on Fredrik Backman’s novel Cast: Rolf Lassgård, Bahar Pars, Filip Berg, Ida Engvoll, Tobias Almborg, Klas Wiljergard Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 9/15/16 Opens: September 30, 2016 In Charles Dickens’ 1843 novel “A Christmas Carol,” Scrooge changes from one of the world’s most famous curmudgeons (“If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart”) to a regular human [ Read More ]
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- 9/24/2016
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Headhunters star Synnove Macody Lund is one of eight actresses testing for the role of a Scandinavian woman in the next 007 adventure.
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MI6-hq is this morning reporting that Norwegian actress Synnove Macody Lund - best known for her work in Headhunters - is one of eight contenders for the role of a Scandinavian character in the upcoming James Bond 24.
The new Bond film, being directed by Skyfall helmer Sam Mendes, is set to start shooting later this year. And Synnove has confirmed that she's met Sam Mendes at Pinewood, following a screentest in Denmark. It's reported that the role she's up for is one of a woman "with a troubled past who will serve as a brief love interest for Bond". Bond, of course, will be played by Daniel Craig again.
Also in line for the role - which is not the more traditional Bond girl role...
News
MI6-hq is this morning reporting that Norwegian actress Synnove Macody Lund - best known for her work in Headhunters - is one of eight contenders for the role of a Scandinavian character in the upcoming James Bond 24.
The new Bond film, being directed by Skyfall helmer Sam Mendes, is set to start shooting later this year. And Synnove has confirmed that she's met Sam Mendes at Pinewood, following a screentest in Denmark. It's reported that the role she's up for is one of a woman "with a troubled past who will serve as a brief love interest for Bond". Bond, of course, will be played by Daniel Craig again.
Also in line for the role - which is not the more traditional Bond girl role...
- 5/13/2014
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
London, April 11: Two Swedish beauties are set to impress Daniel Craig to be the next Bond girl.
Ida Engvoll and Disa Ostrand, who have already been screen tested for a starring role in the new 007 movie, wish to win over the 46-year-old English actor and bag the part of his leading lady, the Daily Star reported.
Both the contestants seemed nervous but refused to give anything away about the film. (Ani)...
Ida Engvoll and Disa Ostrand, who have already been screen tested for a starring role in the new 007 movie, wish to win over the 46-year-old English actor and bag the part of his leading lady, the Daily Star reported.
Both the contestants seemed nervous but refused to give anything away about the film. (Ani)...
- 4/11/2014
- by Arun Pandit
- RealBollywood.com
Further on from last week's report that Chiwetel Ejiofor is being considered for the villain comes word that Penelope Cruz may be involved in the next James Bond film.
Cruz has been rumored before, but France's Premiere magazine noticed her inclusion in a recent release schedule update from Sony Pictures. A publicist error? Quite possible.
On top of this, Aftonbladet (via Bleeding Cool) adds that Swedish actresses Ida Engvoll and Disa Östrand have filmed screen tests for the movie.
Source: The Playlist...
Cruz has been rumored before, but France's Premiere magazine noticed her inclusion in a recent release schedule update from Sony Pictures. A publicist error? Quite possible.
On top of this, Aftonbladet (via Bleeding Cool) adds that Swedish actresses Ida Engvoll and Disa Östrand have filmed screen tests for the movie.
Source: The Playlist...
- 4/10/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
"Star Wars: Episode 7" isn't the only franchise around town working hard to keep details under wraps. "Bond 24" is gearing up to shoot this summer, and with reports last week that Chiwetel Ejiofor was being considered for a villain role, now another big star has come into the casting mix. The eagle-eyed folks at France's Premiere magazine noticed that in a recent release schedule update from Sony, Penelope Cruz was listed in the cast alongside Daniel Craig , Ralph Fiennes and Naomie Harris. Is it a mistake? Perhaps, and let's not forget that as early as last summer, rumors swirled that Cruz would be joining the film (following her husband Javier Bardem's turn as the villain in "Skyfall"). We're sure confirmation or denials or (more likely) silence will come down from on high soon enough. But any rate, casting does seem to be moving along in earnest. Aftonbladet (via Bleeding...
- 4/10/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Variety learned that "12 Years a Slave" star Chiwetel Ejiofor is the top choice to play the villain in the next installment in the "James Bond" franchise. The contract has yet to be signed, but Ejiofor is no stranger to playing the bad guy. He was the villain in "Children of Men" and "Four Brothers." If the actor gets the role, he'll join the cast already comprised of Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw and Naomie Harris. The plan is to start production in the summer and have the film in theaters on November 6th, 2015. Meanwhile, director Sam Mendes (Skyfall) is also looking for one Scandinavian and one British woman to play the new bond girls. It's being reported that Swedish actresses Ida Engvoll and Disa Ostrand are among those who have tested for the movie.
- 4/5/2014
- WorstPreviews.com
According to The Wrap, 12 Years a Slave and Serenity star Chiwetel Ejiofor is the frontrunner to play the lead villain in the next James Bond movie (which despite a convincing fake trailer, still has no title). Sam Mendes is set to direct Bond 24, and Skyfall scribe John Logan also returned to pen the screenplay. There aren't any solid character details as of yet, byt the site emphasise the fact that he is Sony and MGM's favourite for the role of 007's next foe. Meanwhile, casting for two key female parts is also underway. One is for a new Bond girl, while the other is described as, "a Scandinavian with a troubled past who will serve as a brief love interest for Bond." Would you guys like to see Ejiofor (a fan favourite choice for Black Panther) as the next Bond baddie? Update: According to Aftonbladet (via Bleeding Cool), Swedish...
- 4/4/2014
- ComicBookMovie.com
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