The Munich-based writer will adapt the award-winning Norwegian fantasy book series for both film and television.
Phenomena is based on the seven-book series by Ruben Eliassen that centres on two elf children who learn they could hold the key to saving the world from evil forces.
The books were published in Norway from 2002-2012. Limmer’s completed screenplay would be the first version to introduce the adventures to English-speaking audiences.
Limmer is currently shortlisted by the German Academy in the best TV writer category for TV movie Paradise 505. His credits include Tatort and Polizeiruf 110 as well as the feature Hinter Kaifeck.
Christian Arnold-Beutel has come on board as producer alongside Gudrun Giddings, Marius Haugan and Daniel Marc Dreifuss.
Giddings and Beutel brokered the deal on behalf of the producers with Astride Bergauer of Agentur Scenario on behalf of Limmer.
Phenomena is based on the seven-book series by Ruben Eliassen that centres on two elf children who learn they could hold the key to saving the world from evil forces.
The books were published in Norway from 2002-2012. Limmer’s completed screenplay would be the first version to introduce the adventures to English-speaking audiences.
Limmer is currently shortlisted by the German Academy in the best TV writer category for TV movie Paradise 505. His credits include Tatort and Polizeiruf 110 as well as the feature Hinter Kaifeck.
Christian Arnold-Beutel has come on board as producer alongside Gudrun Giddings, Marius Haugan and Daniel Marc Dreifuss.
Giddings and Beutel brokered the deal on behalf of the producers with Astride Bergauer of Agentur Scenario on behalf of Limmer.
- 9/4/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The Munich-based writer is adapting the award-winning Norwegian fantasy book series for both big and small screens.
Phenomena is based on the seven-book series by Ruben Eliassen that centres on two elf children who learn they could hold the key to saving the world from evil forces.
The books were published in Norway from 2002-2012. Limmer’s completed screenplay would be the first version to introduce the adventures to English-speaking audiences.
Limmer is currently shortlisted by the German Academy in the best TV writer category for TV movie Paradise 505. His credits include Tatort and Polizeiruf 110 as well as the feature Hinter Kaifeck.
Phenomena is a co-production between Filmed Imagination, G4C Innovation and Magicworx and the producers are Christian Arnold-Beutel, Gudrun Giddings, Marius Haugan and Daniel Marc Dreifuss.
Giddings and Arnold-Beutel brokered the deal on behalf of the producers with Astride Bergauer of Agentur Scenario on behalf of Limmer.
Phenomena is based on the seven-book series by Ruben Eliassen that centres on two elf children who learn they could hold the key to saving the world from evil forces.
The books were published in Norway from 2002-2012. Limmer’s completed screenplay would be the first version to introduce the adventures to English-speaking audiences.
Limmer is currently shortlisted by the German Academy in the best TV writer category for TV movie Paradise 505. His credits include Tatort and Polizeiruf 110 as well as the feature Hinter Kaifeck.
Phenomena is a co-production between Filmed Imagination, G4C Innovation and Magicworx and the producers are Christian Arnold-Beutel, Gudrun Giddings, Marius Haugan and Daniel Marc Dreifuss.
Giddings and Arnold-Beutel brokered the deal on behalf of the producers with Astride Bergauer of Agentur Scenario on behalf of Limmer.
- 9/3/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Fantastic Fest 2009, which takes place in Austin, Texas, USA Sept 24-Oct 1, 2009 has a bunch of female-directed horror films, both shorts and features, that rock! Celia Rico's Dos Manos Zurdas y un Racimo de Ojos Manchados de Gris, Tracie Laymon's Inside, Alicia Conway's Rite, Barbara Brancaccio's documentary Cropsey, and Esther Gronenborn's Kaifeck Murders are all screening this year. Find out synopses and more below...
Dos Manos Zurdas y un Racimo de Ojos Manchados de Gris
(dir. Antonio Trashorras and Celia Rico, Spain, 19 min)
A love letter to the surreal, bloody classic giallos, by the screenwriter of The Devil's Backbone.
Inside (dir Tracie Laymon, USA, 13 min)
What do you do when there's something growing inside of you? You get rid of it.
Rite (dir. Alicia Conway, USA, 9 min)
Blossoming to adulthood is no picnic. A dreamish, jarring vision of growing up.
Cropsey
(dir. Barbara Brancaccio and Joshua Zeman,...
Dos Manos Zurdas y un Racimo de Ojos Manchados de Gris
(dir. Antonio Trashorras and Celia Rico, Spain, 19 min)
A love letter to the surreal, bloody classic giallos, by the screenwriter of The Devil's Backbone.
Inside (dir Tracie Laymon, USA, 13 min)
What do you do when there's something growing inside of you? You get rid of it.
Rite (dir. Alicia Conway, USA, 9 min)
Blossoming to adulthood is no picnic. A dreamish, jarring vision of growing up.
Cropsey
(dir. Barbara Brancaccio and Joshua Zeman,...
- 8/11/2009
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Directed by Esther Gronenborn
Written by Christian Limmer & Sönke Lars Neuwöhner
Featuring Benno Fürmann, Alexandra Maria Lara
Review by Hal MacDermot
A lonely forest at twilight, the haunting sound of a piano, a young girl walks alone, she looks back perhaps to see if she’s being followed. Will she find a wolf? No, but she will find a farmhouse full of dead bodies with their heads smashed in. Kaifeck Murder is a beautifully shot horror/thriller/fairy tale with fine performances from Benno Fürmann (Jerichow, Mutant Chronicles) and Alexandra Maria Lara, (Control & Youth Without Youth). The film draws inspiration from the true life unsolved murder of 6 people in small German village back in 1922. This is a story of superstition and community in the vein of the original Wicker Man, or even Neil Jordan’s gothic horror fairy tale “The Company of Wolves.” Don’t expect a slash fest, but...
Written by Christian Limmer & Sönke Lars Neuwöhner
Featuring Benno Fürmann, Alexandra Maria Lara
Review by Hal MacDermot
A lonely forest at twilight, the haunting sound of a piano, a young girl walks alone, she looks back perhaps to see if she’s being followed. Will she find a wolf? No, but she will find a farmhouse full of dead bodies with their heads smashed in. Kaifeck Murder is a beautifully shot horror/thriller/fairy tale with fine performances from Benno Fürmann (Jerichow, Mutant Chronicles) and Alexandra Maria Lara, (Control & Youth Without Youth). The film draws inspiration from the true life unsolved murder of 6 people in small German village back in 1922. This is a story of superstition and community in the vein of the original Wicker Man, or even Neil Jordan’s gothic horror fairy tale “The Company of Wolves.” Don’t expect a slash fest, but...
- 8/5/2009
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Year: 2009
Directors: Esther Gronenborn
Writers: Christian Limmer & Sönke Lars Neuwöhner
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Hal MacDermot
Rating: 7.8 out of 10
A lonely forest at twilight, the haunting sound of a piano, a young girl walks alone, she looks back perhaps to see if she’s being followed. Will she find a wolf? No, but she will find a farmhouse full of dead bodies with their heads smashed in. Kaifeck Murder is a beautifully shot horror/thriller/fairy tale with fine performances from Benno Fürmann (Jerichow, Mutant Chronicles) and Alexandra Maria Lara, (Control & Youth Without Youth). The film draws inspiration from the true life unsolved murder of 6 people in small German village back in 1922. This is a story of superstition and community in the vein of the original Wicker Man, or even Neil Jordan’s gothic horror fairy tale “The Company of Wolves.” Don’t expect a slash fest, but...
Directors: Esther Gronenborn
Writers: Christian Limmer & Sönke Lars Neuwöhner
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Hal MacDermot
Rating: 7.8 out of 10
A lonely forest at twilight, the haunting sound of a piano, a young girl walks alone, she looks back perhaps to see if she’s being followed. Will she find a wolf? No, but she will find a farmhouse full of dead bodies with their heads smashed in. Kaifeck Murder is a beautifully shot horror/thriller/fairy tale with fine performances from Benno Fürmann (Jerichow, Mutant Chronicles) and Alexandra Maria Lara, (Control & Youth Without Youth). The film draws inspiration from the true life unsolved murder of 6 people in small German village back in 1922. This is a story of superstition and community in the vein of the original Wicker Man, or even Neil Jordan’s gothic horror fairy tale “The Company of Wolves.” Don’t expect a slash fest, but...
- 8/4/2009
- QuietEarth.us
After years dominated by *yet another* Meg Ryan/Sandra Bullock movie … Hollywood’s stable of talented actresses is replenishing with fresh faces. Besides super-stars like Scarlett Johansson and Angelina Jolie, recent and forthcoming movies are sure to make stars of these emerging beauties who have come from around the world to amuse us at the cinema.
Who’s your fave?
Isabel Lucas
Where she’s from: Melbourne, Australia
You might have seen her in: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
What’s coming next: Daybreakers
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Abbie Cornish
Where she’s from: Australia
You might have seen her in: Stop - Loss
What’s coming next: Brightstar
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Rachel McAdams
Where she’s from: Canada
You might have seen her in: The Notebook
What’s coming next: Time Travelers Wife
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Mia Wasikowska
Where she’s from: Australia
You might have seen her in: Defiance
What’s coming next: Alice In Wonderland
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Gianna Jun...
Who’s your fave?
Isabel Lucas
Where she’s from: Melbourne, Australia
You might have seen her in: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
What’s coming next: Daybreakers
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Abbie Cornish
Where she’s from: Australia
You might have seen her in: Stop - Loss
What’s coming next: Brightstar
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Rachel McAdams
Where she’s from: Canada
You might have seen her in: The Notebook
What’s coming next: Time Travelers Wife
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Mia Wasikowska
Where she’s from: Australia
You might have seen her in: Defiance
What’s coming next: Alice In Wonderland
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Gianna Jun...
- 7/22/2009
- by Kyle Zahar
- MovieSet.com
When I saw that Todd over at Twitch mention Kaifeck Murder was the best film he'd seen yet at the European Film Market I was quite happy, and even happier so with his review. When I saw this film announced last year I was immediately intrigued, and after checking out Esther's previous work alaska.de I got kind of excited. I proceeded to look for an English subbed copy of alaska.de and after many emails, all I had was an offer of a German copy which really does me no good. So there it lay, until now. From the trailer, Kaifeck Murder looks like it straddles the line of both mystery and horror and I'm pretty excited to see it.
A job brings the photographer Marc to the remote and mysterious village of Kaifeck, Bavaria, when he feels a weird connection to a tale of gruesome murders on a...
A job brings the photographer Marc to the remote and mysterious village of Kaifeck, Bavaria, when he feels a weird connection to a tale of gruesome murders on a...
- 2/11/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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