Noomi Rapace & Aksel
Hennie To Star In Thriller ‘The Trip’ From ‘Hansel & Gretel’ Director Tommy
Wirkola, XYZ Launches For Toronto
EXCLUSIVE: Noomi Rapace (Prometheus)
and Aksel Hennie (The Martian)
have been set to co-star in director Tommy Wirkola’s Norwegian-language
thriller The Trip, which XYZ will launch
world sales on during the Toronto Film Festival.
The film will follow a dysfunctional
husband (Hennie) and wife (Rapace) who head to a remote lakeside cabin under
the guise of reconnecting, but each has secret designs to kill the other.
Before they can carry out their respective plans, unexpected visitors arrive
and the couple is faced with a greater danger than anything they could have
plotted.
Written by Wirkola (Hansel and Gretel:
Witch Hunters), Nick Ball and John Niven, the film is produced by Kjetil
Omberg and Jørgen Storm Rosenberg for 74 Entertainment. XYZ Films is financing
and co-reps U.S. with CAA. Nordisk Film Distribution will release in
Scandinavia.
The film reunites Wirkola with Rapace
after the two worked together on action pic What Happened to Monday.
XYZ, Wirkola and 74 Entertainment previously collaborated on comedy horror
pic Dead Snow 2.
Rapace, star of the original Millennium series,
will next be seen in thriller The Secrets We Keep and
drama Lamb. Headhunters star Hennie will next be
seen in action-thriller The Doorman.
XYZ’s slate of sales titles include Run
Rabbit Run with Elisabeth Moss; Dual starring Karen
Gillan, Aaron Paul and Jesse Eisenberg; and Cus and Mike with
Anthony Hopkins.
Rapace is repped by CAA, Stella Härnström
and Hirsh Wallerstein Hayum Matlof & Fishman. Hennie is repped by Paradigm.
Wirkola is repped by CAA and Artists First.
DEADLINE By Andreas Wiseman September 10, 2020 7:37am
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