Neon Boards Thea Hvistendahl’s Horror-Drama ‘Handling The Undead’ Starring ‘The Worst Person In The World’ Breakout Renate Reinsve
deadline.comNeon has acquired North American and UK rights to the horror-drama Handling the Undead, marking the narrative feature debut of Thea Hvistendahl, who previously directed the documentary Adjø Montebello and several short films, including the SXSW Grand Jury Award-nominated Virgins4lyfe.
The project reteams the distributor with Renate Reinsve and Anders Danielsen Lie, who starred in its Oscar-nominated romantic drama The Worst Person in the World, directed by Joachim Trier.Halding the Undead picks up on an abnormally hot summer day in Oslo, on which a strange electric field surrounds the city, as a collective migraine spreads across town.
TVs, lightbulbs and electronics go haywire, the chaos reaching a debilitating crescendo when suddenly, it’s over.The film currently in production is based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, the renowned writer of bestselling horror novels and the screenplays Border and Let the Right One In, who co-wrote the script with Hvistendahl.
Its cast also includes Bjørn Sundquist (Witch Hunters), Bente Børsum (Exit) and Bahar Pars (A Man Called Ove).Kristin Emblem & Guri Neby are producing under their Einar Film banner, with whom Anonymous Content has their Scandinavian joint venture Anonymous Content Nordic.
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