EXCLUSIVE: Swedish director Amir Chamdin, whose drama Partisan received Finest Collection on the 2020 Canneseries market, has signed on to direct Corleone, an action-thriller set in america and Sicily.
Written by Sandro Lorino, Wealthy Ronat and Nate Adams, the movie is predicated on a narrative by Sandro Lorino and and Antonio Lorino, and tells the story of a household man with a mysterious previous, whose peaceable life is upended when he turns into entangled in a deathly cat-and-mouse recreation with the primary feminine boss of the Cosa Nostra.
Manufacturing is being lined up for March, with casting at the moment underway. The movie is being produced by Richard Salvatore (Stolen Woman), Nate Adams (Vanquish), and Sandro Lorino and Norbert Krott for Lorino Footage. Government producers embody Fabio Costabile (Skincare) and Dirk Schweitzer (Operation Napoleon).
Chamdin most not too long ago directed ballet Gustavia, which premiered on the Royal Opera Home in Stockholm this previous October. His display screen credit embody Börje and Partisan.
“When Sandro offered us with this screenplay primarily based on an unbelievable true story, it was an instantaneous sure,” mentioned producer Richard Salvatore, the veteran U.S. producer whose credit embody The Huge Wedding ceremony and The Comeback Path. “Corleone, Sicily, is world-famous because of The Godfather. The distinction right here is that Sandro and his father are literally from Corleone, lending the story a deeply private and genuine basis.”
Chamdin mentioned: “This movie is not only an exhilarating story but in addition a deeply private one for its creators. Molded right into a tense thriller within the vein of traditional Lumet or Frankenheimer movies, I knew straight away that I needed to make this film. With this highly effective continuous page-turner of a script, it was a chance unimaginable to go on“.
Salvatore’s upcoming tasks embody Stolen Woman, starring Kate Beckinsale and Scott Eastwood, and Off the Grid, starring Josh Duhamel and Greg Kinnear. Adams most not too long ago completed showrunning the TV Collection Mr. Birchum and has produced movies together with The 24 Hour Conflict and Morgan Freeman’s Vanquish.
Lorino is the previous head purchaser for broadcast big RTL and head of manufacturing & advertising at Splendid Movie. Costabile has been an assistant producer on films Kill ‘Em All 2 and the upcoming Stolen Woman. German vet Schweitzer, most not too long ago a producer on action-thriller Operation Napoleon, was CEO of Splendid Medien, Managing Director of the Tele München Group, CEO of Universum, and head of acquisitions & gross sales at European broadcaster RTL Group.
Chamdin is represented by Martina Österling at Scandinavian agency Albatros Company.
