Mikael Marcimain, ‘Midsommar’ Team Board ‘Devastation,’ Mylla’s Film About Sweden’s 1860s Starvation (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Mikael Marcimain, the popular Swedish director of “Call Girl” and “Gentlemen,” is on track to direct “Devastation,” an epic and horrific tale of survival set in 1867. “Devastation” is one of the first projects developed by Mylla films, the new banner set up by Jakob Abrahamsson and Patrik Andersson (“Midsommar”).

Mylla films has enlisted Nordic distributor and co-producer Scanbox and French boutique genre specialist Alexis Perrin of Rumble Fish as co-producers.

A period piece set in Northern Sweden, “Devastation” is penned by Melina Maraki (“The Liberation of Harold Kvist”). Unfolding during the ever-ending winter and famine of 1867, the film revolves around two brothers, one the local industrialist and the other the local preacher, who keep a sawmill society in a tyrannical stronghold.

An uprising begins from the most unexpected place. Marcimain, who is rolling off a a string of TV hits, including “Blackwater” which won a prize at Series Mania in Lille, made his debut feature with “Call Girl” which won the FIPRESCI award at Toronto and won three Guldbagge Awards (the local equivalent to the Oscars).