Focus Boards Baltasar Kormákur’s Romantic Drama ‘Touch’, Based On Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson’s Icelandic Bestseller
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Focus Features has boarded Beast and Everest filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur’s romantic drama Touch, which begins principal photography Sunday in London.
Focus will release domestically, with Universal Pictures International handling overseas distribution (excluding Iceland). Touch is based on the bestselling Icelandic novel by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson, which was published in the U.S.
in August this year. Ólaffson co-wrote the script with Kormákur. The story spans several decades and continents as it follows one widower’s emotional journey to find his first love who disappeared 50 years ago — before his time runs out.
Touch features an international cast including Egill Olafsson, Kōki, Masahiro Motoki, Palmi Kormakur, Sigurdur Ingvarsson, Yoko Narahashi, Masatoshi Nakamura, Meg Kubota, Maria Ellingsen, Eiji Mihara, Theodor Juliusson, Starkadur Petursson, Ruth Sheen and Benedikt Erlingsson.
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