Mads Mikkelsen will star in motion thriller Sirius, the debut function from Academy Award-winning editor Lee Smith.
Neon Worldwide is kicking off overseas gross sales to the movie at in Cannes, with Neon’s third-party gross sales home Decal dealing with rights domestically and planning it because the label’s first broad theatrical launch.
Pic relies on a screenplay by Tony Mosher (Mechanic: Resurrection) and is at the moment in pre-production, described as a “gripping Arctic action-thriller impressed by the real-life Sirius Patrol, the Danish particular forces unit charged with defending Greenland’s 8,700-mile frozen shoreline.”
Pascal Degove and Matt Williams will produce for Future Artists Leisure and Deborah Acoca will govt produce.
Smith, a primary time director, is thought for collaborations with Sam Mendes, Christopher Nolan and Peter Weir, and received an Academy Award for Greatest Movie Enhancing for his work on Nolan’s Dunkirk. He was additionally nominated for Weir’s Grasp and Commander: The Far Facet of the World and Nolan’s The Darkish Knight.
Mikkelsen is thought for roles within the first two of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Pushing trilogy, and others in On line casino Royale, The Hunt, Physician Unusual, Rogue One, Improbable Beasts: The Secrets and techniques of Dumbledore, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Future and Danish Oscar entry The Promised Land. He was BAFTA-nominated for Thomas Vinterberg’s One other Spherical, which received the Greatest Worldwide Function Oscar in 2021. Mikkelsen has additionally starred in NBC drama Hannibal.
Given President Donald Trump’s noises round annexing Greenland from Denmark, which counts it as an autonomous territory regardless of its location in North America, curiosity might be excessive on this one. Greenland voted in a brand new centre-right, pro-independence social gathering in March, which has been taken as a rejection of Trump’s advances.
Neon is hoping for an additional hit following Sean Baker’s Anora, starring Mikey Madison. After successful the 2024 Palme d’Or, it went on win 5 Oscars, together with Greatest Image, Greatest Director and Greatest Actress. This 12 months on the Croisette, it’s launching Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Worth and Julia Ducournau’s Alpha in addition to Raoul Peck’s Orwell: 2+2=5 and Michael Angelo Covino’s Splitsville starring Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona, the latter of which it additionally produced.
Neon Worldwide’s gross sales slate consists of Takashi Miike’s Unhealthy Lieutenant: Tokyo, starring Shun Oguri and Lily James; Her Personal Hell from director Nicolas Winding Refn, starring Sophie Thatcher and Charles Melton; and Michael Shanks’ lauded function Collectively, starring Alison Brie and Dave Franco.
Mikkelsen is represented by UTA, Artwork Administration and Viewpoint. Smith is represented by Gersh. Mosher is represented by Gersh, Circle of Confusion and Behr Abramson Levy Johnson, LLP.
