It was an unfortunate blow for Alexander Payne when, this past October, Netflix halted production on a father-daughter road movie the director was set to helm with star Mads Mikkelsen. However, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker has finally found his first project to take on since 2017’s “Downsizing.” As originally reported by Deadline, that film will be a reimagining of Gabriel Alex’s 1987 “Babette’s Feast,” which was the first Danish film to win the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award.
Payne’s version will transport the original’s 19th-century religious community setting to small-town Minnesota, where two spinster sisters take in a refugee who brings buried resentments and regrets to the surface over the course of a lavish meal. In the 1987 film written by Axel from a Karen Blixen short story, the pious Danish sisters take in a French refugee of the Franco-Prussian War. Payne’s take will be written by comedian Guy Branum,...
Payne’s version will transport the original’s 19th-century religious community setting to small-town Minnesota, where two spinster sisters take in a refugee who brings buried resentments and regrets to the surface over the course of a lavish meal. In the 1987 film written by Axel from a Karen Blixen short story, the pious Danish sisters take in a French refugee of the Franco-Prussian War. Payne’s take will be written by comedian Guy Branum,...
- 12/2/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Alexander Payne has attached to direct a re-imagining of Babette’s Feast, the 1988 Oscar-winning Danish Film which Gabriel Axel wrote and directed from a story by Karen Blixen.
The project was set up by Unique Features, the production shingle that former New Line founder Bob Shaye created with his late partner Michael Lynne. Shaye will produce with Jennifer Wachtell under the Unique banner. The script will be written by Guy Branum, whose credits include The Other Two and The Mindy Project. Benni Korzen and Josi Konski will also produce.
The film will be set in a religious community in small-town Minnesota, where two older, unmarried sisters accept a refugee, who leads them to confront their regrets, over an extraordinary meal. It sounds right in the wheelhouse of Payne, Oscar winner for The Descendants and Sideways.
Payne is repped by CAA; Branum is managed by OmniPop Talent Group’s Zack Freedman.
The project was set up by Unique Features, the production shingle that former New Line founder Bob Shaye created with his late partner Michael Lynne. Shaye will produce with Jennifer Wachtell under the Unique banner. The script will be written by Guy Branum, whose credits include The Other Two and The Mindy Project. Benni Korzen and Josi Konski will also produce.
The film will be set in a religious community in small-town Minnesota, where two older, unmarried sisters accept a refugee, who leads them to confront their regrets, over an extraordinary meal. It sounds right in the wheelhouse of Payne, Oscar winner for The Descendants and Sideways.
Payne is repped by CAA; Branum is managed by OmniPop Talent Group’s Zack Freedman.
- 12/2/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Rights agreement between legendary director and novellist green-lights existential parable.
Serbian producer Milos Antic is moving ahead on a long-cherished dream to bring Sam Peckinpah’s unproduced screenplay Castaway to the big screen.
Antic has secured rights from the Peckinpah Estate and will produce the existential parable alongside Los Angeles-based producers Katy Haber, with whom he worked on the late Peckinpah’s Cross Of Iron may years ago, and Benni Korzen.
Antic and Haber worked with Peckinpah on his only war film (pictured), in 1976 in Portoroz, Slovenia, in the former-Yugoslavia. During the shoot Peckinpah told Antic of his wish to direct Castaway,...
Serbian producer Milos Antic is moving ahead on a long-cherished dream to bring Sam Peckinpah’s unproduced screenplay Castaway to the big screen.
Antic has secured rights from the Peckinpah Estate and will produce the existential parable alongside Los Angeles-based producers Katy Haber, with whom he worked on the late Peckinpah’s Cross Of Iron may years ago, and Benni Korzen.
Antic and Haber worked with Peckinpah on his only war film (pictured), in 1976 in Portoroz, Slovenia, in the former-Yugoslavia. During the shoot Peckinpah told Antic of his wish to direct Castaway,...
- 8/15/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Serbian producer Milos Antic said he has acquired the film rights to legendary director Sam Peckinpah’s unproduced screenplay Castaway (which is a working title), which is based on James Gould Cozzen’s 1934 novella of the same name. The deal was done with the Peckinpah Estate; Antic will be producing alongside Los Angeles-based producers Katy Haber and Benni Korzen.
Antic and Haber both worked with Peckinpah on his only war film Cross of Iron in 1976 in Portoroz, Slovenia (the former-Yugoslavia). On that shoot, Antic said that Peckinpah wanted to direct Castaway, and Antic told him if the film could be shot in Yugoslavia, he would want to help finance the film based on the novella that Peckinpah had acquired rights to in 1960.
Castaway is the story of Mr Lecky, “an every-man who survives an unnamed catastrophe by hiding in a department store that has escaped destruction. While he is surrounded...
Antic and Haber both worked with Peckinpah on his only war film Cross of Iron in 1976 in Portoroz, Slovenia (the former-Yugoslavia). On that shoot, Antic said that Peckinpah wanted to direct Castaway, and Antic told him if the film could be shot in Yugoslavia, he would want to help finance the film based on the novella that Peckinpah had acquired rights to in 1960.
Castaway is the story of Mr Lecky, “an every-man who survives an unnamed catastrophe by hiding in a department store that has escaped destruction. While he is surrounded...
- 8/15/2018
- by Anita Busch
- Deadline Film + TV
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