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EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of nan Cannes marketplace adjacent month, Warner Bros. International Television Production Sweden has appointed Greek outfit Heretic arsenic world income supplier for Adult Supervision, nan upcoming Scandi play starring Swedish stars Gustaf Skarsgård (Vikings), Fares Fares (The Nile Hilton Incident) and Linus Wahlgren (Crimes Of Passion).
Known locally arsenic Arkipelag, nan task marks nan debut characteristic movie written and directed by Swedish writer Alex Schulman.
The synopsis reads: “When 3 fathers chaperone their teenage daughters connected a rowdy schoolhouse travel to a distant island, tensions quickly escalate and their grip connected nan business originates to slip. As buried memories resurface, games move into powerfulness struggles — and powerfulness into violence. Soon nary 1 tin tell: who is successful charge, and who is successful danger?” Above is an image of nan 3 protagonists successful nan movie.
Schulman worked connected nan film, which is laced pinch acheronian humor, with cinematographer Jakob Ihre, longtime collaborator of Joachim Trier, and Emmy-winning head of photography connected HBO’s Chernobyl.
Pic is produced by Warner Bros. International Television Production Sweden, pinch Christina Legkova arsenic shaper and Sofie Palage and Johan Hedman arsenic executive producers. It is co-produced by RMV Film, Tiisch Film AB, Film Stockholm AB and Scanbox Entertainment, pinch support from nan Swedish Film Institute and nan Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth. It will beryllium distributed successful Sweden by Scanbox Entertainment.
Ioanna Stais, Heretic’s Head of Sales, said: “Alex Schulman has crafted a acheronian drama that feels some sharply observed and profoundly disquieting — there’s a provocative separator to nan humour that perpetually teeters connected thing much dangerous. It’s a bold debut that balances reside successful a very precise and unexpected way, and we’re excited to bring it to audiences internationally.”
Alex Schulman, head and screenwriter added: “I wanted to make a movie wherever nan laughter catches successful your pharynx — wherever you are smiling 1 infinitesimal and profoundly uncomfortable nan next. I’m gladsome Heretic understood that immediately.”
Producer Christina Legkova commented: “Heretic’s committedness to bold, auteur-driven cinema makes them nan perfect partner for Adult Supervision, and we are thrilled to person them connected committee to administer nan movie internationally. We couldn’t ideate amended hands to bring Alex Schulman’s singular directorial debut to audiences astir nan world.”
