Scott Free To Adapt Ragnar Jónasson Thriller ‘Outside’ As Feature Film
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Scott Free Productions has optioned the rights to the acclaimed thriller Outside from bestselling Icelandic author Ragnar Jónasson for feature adaptation.
Acclaimed commercial director Henrik Hansen from Scott’s RSA Films is in talks to direct the project. The novel will be released in the UK on April 28, 2022 and in the US in June 2022.The story follows four friends seeking shelter in a small abandoned hunting lodge during a deadly Icelandic storm.
Miles from help, and knowing they will die outside in the cold, they break open the lock and make their way inside, hoping to wait out the storm until morning.
But nothing can prepare them for what they find behind the door.Ridley Scott, Tom Moran, and Vera Meyer of Scott Free Productions will produce alongside Leifur Dagfinnsson and Kristinn Thordarson of Truenorth Productions.“Working with Ridley Scott, one of the great visionaries of cinema, is an immense honour.
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