While we're still unsure if it's going to be a horror project, it is coming from Hammer Films. It was announced today that Hammer picked up Wake, a spec script by Chris Borrelli, with Kasper Barfoed attached to direct. The project has franchise aspirations and has been a described as a Transporter-style story. Borrelli is a "Black List" writer who first popped up with the supernatural thriller spec Whisper, produced by Universal/Gold Circle in 2007. Last summer his spec The Vatican Tapes sold in a bidding war to Lionsgate and Lakeshore. Barfoed is a Danish filmmaker best known for 2008's Kandidaten (The Candidate), which is getting remade as a Sam Worthington vehicle.
- 6/4/2010
- bloody-disgusting.com
Exclusive Media Group's Hammer Films has picked up "Wake," a spec script by Chris Borrelli, with Kasper Barfoed attached to direct.
Producers include Circle of Confusion's David Alpert and Stephen Emery, Chris Cowles and Chris Fenton of H2F and Marc Butan.
The project has franchise aspirations and has been a described as a "Transporter"-style story.
Repped by UTA and Industry, Barfoed is a Danish filmmaker best known for 2008's "Kandidaten" (The Candidate), which is getting remade as a Sam Worthington vehicle. Barfoed recently signed on to direct "The Numbers Station," a thriller to star Ethan Hawke.
Borrelli is a "Black List" writer who first popped up with the supernatural thriller spec "Whisper," produced by Universal/Gold Circle in 2007. He wrote the sequel to "The Marine" for Fox/WWE in 2008, and last summer his spec "The Vatican Tapes" sold in a bidding war to Lionsgate and Lakeshore. He...
Producers include Circle of Confusion's David Alpert and Stephen Emery, Chris Cowles and Chris Fenton of H2F and Marc Butan.
The project has franchise aspirations and has been a described as a "Transporter"-style story.
Repped by UTA and Industry, Barfoed is a Danish filmmaker best known for 2008's "Kandidaten" (The Candidate), which is getting remade as a Sam Worthington vehicle. Barfoed recently signed on to direct "The Numbers Station," a thriller to star Ethan Hawke.
Borrelli is a "Black List" writer who first popped up with the supernatural thriller spec "Whisper," produced by Universal/Gold Circle in 2007. He wrote the sequel to "The Marine" for Fox/WWE in 2008, and last summer his spec "The Vatican Tapes" sold in a bidding war to Lionsgate and Lakeshore. He...
- 6/3/2010
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
By Steve Pond
The action film “The Numbers Station,” directed by Kasper Barfoed and starring Ethan Hawke, has been acquired for worldwide distribution by ContentFilm International. The acquisition was announced at Cannes on Sunday.
Principal photography on the film will begin in September. Additional cast will be announced shortly.
Danish director Barfoed has made four films in Denmark, including “Kandidaten” (“The Candidate”...
The action film “The Numbers Station,” directed by Kasper Barfoed and starring Ethan Hawke, has been acquired for worldwide distribution by ContentFilm International. The acquisition was announced at Cannes on Sunday.
Principal photography on the film will begin in September. Additional cast will be announced shortly.
Danish director Barfoed has made four films in Denmark, including “Kandidaten” (“The Candidate”...
- 5/16/2010
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Sam Worthington, star of Terminator Salvation and James Cameron’s upcoming sci-fi epic Avatar, has signed on to star in The Candidate. Beau Willimon is writing the screenplay and the film is based on the recent Danish thriller Kandidaten. In film, an aspiring lawyer wakes up in a hotel room with scant memories of the woman he met the night before, only to discover she's dead in the bathroom -- and he's about to be blackmailed for her murder. As he fights to clear his name, he uncovers a conspiracy that leads back to his own father's mysterious death. Written by Stefan Jaworski, the original played in theaters in Denmark last year, but has no American distributor at the moment. The original film's producers, Peter Bose and Jonas Allen of Miso Film, will executive produce the remake. Scribe Willimon previously wrote the political play Farragut North, which at one time Warner Bros.
- 7/22/2009
- by James Cook
- TheMovingPicture.net
Sam Worthington is attached to star in a remake of the recent Danish thriller "The Candidate." Beau Willimon has been hired to write the project, and Summit has picked up the remake rights.
Industry Entertainment, which reps the original film's director, Kasper Barfoed, and star, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, as well as Worthington, packaged the project. Several bidders got involved until Summit's Erik Feig nabbed it.
Temple Hill Entertainment's Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey are producing. Worthington might also produce.
The original film's producers, Peter Bose and Jonas Allen of Miso Film, will executive produce the remake.
In "The Candidate," a defense attorney goes on the hunt for a group of blackmailers when he is suddenly accused of murder. In a nothing-is-what-it-seems fantasia reminiscent of David Fincher's "The Game," the mystery ends up tying back into the suspicious death of the lawyer's father.
Written by Stefan Jaworski, "The Candidate...
Industry Entertainment, which reps the original film's director, Kasper Barfoed, and star, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, as well as Worthington, packaged the project. Several bidders got involved until Summit's Erik Feig nabbed it.
Temple Hill Entertainment's Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey are producing. Worthington might also produce.
The original film's producers, Peter Bose and Jonas Allen of Miso Film, will executive produce the remake.
In "The Candidate," a defense attorney goes on the hunt for a group of blackmailers when he is suddenly accused of murder. In a nothing-is-what-it-seems fantasia reminiscent of David Fincher's "The Game," the mystery ends up tying back into the suspicious death of the lawyer's father.
Written by Stefan Jaworski, "The Candidate...
- 7/21/2009
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It aint always the case but sometimes more really is better and such seems to be the case with Denmark’s Kandidaten (The Candidate). Denmark is going through a pretty significant boom in noir-oriented films right now and Kaspar Barfoed’s latest fits neatly into that mold.
Jonas Bechmann, a defence attorney, is a man of the system. Until the day he himself is accused of murder. Taking matters into his own hands, he throws himself into the hunt for a group of blackmailers who threaten to expose him as the killer. But nothing is what it appears to be, and the blackmail links back to his father’s death under mysterious circumstances a year and a half earlier.
Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Kim Bodnia - two of my favorite actors in the world - star and both are perfectly suited to this sort of thing. We posted the first teaser a couple months back,...
Jonas Bechmann, a defence attorney, is a man of the system. Until the day he himself is accused of murder. Taking matters into his own hands, he throws himself into the hunt for a group of blackmailers who threaten to expose him as the killer. But nothing is what it appears to be, and the blackmail links back to his father’s death under mysterious circumstances a year and a half earlier.
Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Kim Bodnia - two of my favorite actors in the world - star and both are perfectly suited to this sort of thing. We posted the first teaser a couple months back,...
- 7/22/2008
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
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