Exclusive: FilmNation Entertainment has optioned rights to the English language remake of the 2017 Norwegian thriller Thelma, for I, Tonya and Lars and the Real Girl director Craig Gillespie to helm. Project is in the early stages, but they have just hired Christy Hall to write the script.
Pic will be financed and produced by FilmNation. The original was directed by Joachim Trier and follows a college student as she starts to experience extreme seizures while studying at university. A religious girl who tries to deny her feelings for a female friend who’s in love with her, she soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of dangerous, suppressed psychokinetic powers.
International sales will be handled by FilmNation and domestic rights will be handled by UTA Independent Film Group.
Gillespie is represented by UTA and Management 360; Hall is CAA and Lbi.
Here is the trailer from the original...
Pic will be financed and produced by FilmNation. The original was directed by Joachim Trier and follows a college student as she starts to experience extreme seizures while studying at university. A religious girl who tries to deny her feelings for a female friend who’s in love with her, she soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of dangerous, suppressed psychokinetic powers.
International sales will be handled by FilmNation and domestic rights will be handled by UTA Independent Film Group.
Gillespie is represented by UTA and Management 360; Hall is CAA and Lbi.
Here is the trailer from the original...
- 9/26/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
I, Tonya director Craig Gillespie is on board to helm an English-language remake of the 2017 Norwegian psychodrama Thelma by director Joachim Trier, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
FilmNation Entertainment optioned the remake rights and hired screenwriter Christy Hall to adapt Trier's film about the sexual awakening of a shy young woman raised according to fundamentalist religious beliefs, but finding herself with telekinetic abilities she struggles to understand and control.
The Scandinavian horror pic had a world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. FilmNation will finance and produce the English language adaptation, and will handle international sales.
UTA Independent Film Group will shop ...
FilmNation Entertainment optioned the remake rights and hired screenwriter Christy Hall to adapt Trier's film about the sexual awakening of a shy young woman raised according to fundamentalist religious beliefs, but finding herself with telekinetic abilities she struggles to understand and control.
The Scandinavian horror pic had a world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. FilmNation will finance and produce the English language adaptation, and will handle international sales.
UTA Independent Film Group will shop ...
- 9/26/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
I, Tonya director Craig Gillespie is on board to helm an English-language remake of the 2017 Norwegian psychodrama Thelma by director Joachim Trier, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
FilmNation Entertainment optioned the remake rights and hired screenwriter Christy Hall to adapt Trier's film about the sexual awakening of a shy young woman raised according to fundamentalist religious beliefs, but finding herself with telekinetic abilities she struggles to understand and control.
The Scandinavian horror pic had a world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. FilmNation will finance and produce the English language adaptation, and will handle international sales.
UTA Independent Film Group will shop ...
FilmNation Entertainment optioned the remake rights and hired screenwriter Christy Hall to adapt Trier's film about the sexual awakening of a shy young woman raised according to fundamentalist religious beliefs, but finding herself with telekinetic abilities she struggles to understand and control.
The Scandinavian horror pic had a world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. FilmNation will finance and produce the English language adaptation, and will handle international sales.
UTA Independent Film Group will shop ...
- 9/26/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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- 1/15/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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