Director Oliver Hirschbiegel first came to our attention with the exceptional “Downfall”, a film about Hitler’s last days.
Sadly, he then followed that up with “Invasion”, a fairly lifeless reworking of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, although that seems to have had more to do with problems with the studio than with Hirschbiegel himself.
Variety have news this morning of a new project for Hirschbiegel, namely an adaptation of The Dark Side of the Moon, a novel by Swiss author Martin Stutor.
David Marconi (Enemy of the State, Die Hard 4.0) will draft the script, all about a lawyer who starts to dabble in magic mushrooms, discovering in the process of the ensuing trip that the life he had built for himself was no longer satisfying. As a result, he begins to withdraw from society. Apparently, the novel has already been translated into eight different languages and shooting is due to start in Switzerland,...
Sadly, he then followed that up with “Invasion”, a fairly lifeless reworking of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, although that seems to have had more to do with problems with the studio than with Hirschbiegel himself.
Variety have news this morning of a new project for Hirschbiegel, namely an adaptation of The Dark Side of the Moon, a novel by Swiss author Martin Stutor.
David Marconi (Enemy of the State, Die Hard 4.0) will draft the script, all about a lawyer who starts to dabble in magic mushrooms, discovering in the process of the ensuing trip that the life he had built for himself was no longer satisfying. As a result, he begins to withdraw from society. Apparently, the novel has already been translated into eight different languages and shooting is due to start in Switzerland,...
- 9/15/2010
- by Dave Roper
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
- A pair of Germany's best film exports in director Oliver Hirschbiegel and actor Moritz Bleibtreu are reuniting on a new project backed by Miramax Germany. Variety reports that the pair who rocked the international scene with 2001’s Das Experiment are dipping into the thriller genre again with a fact-based tale on a Mafia hitman. Angel Face is based on the novel by Andreas Ulrich called Das Engelsgesicht, Bleibtreu would wear the big shoes of Giorgio Basile, - the man they called “The Angel Face” in mafia circles and was for many years a feared contract killer for the Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta crime syndicate. After his arrest in 1998, Basile became a state witness against the Italian mafia. Filming begins early next year and should be ready for 2010. The picture will give Hirschbiegel a new lease on life – after his monster success in 2001 and his Hitler stuck in a bunker portrait Downfall,
- 11/11/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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