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Hollywood revisits Troubled Water

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Norwegian film Troubled Water [+see also:
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by Erik Poppe is to be remade in the US by Hollywood producer Basil Iwanyk (Firewall) and Icelandic/US producer Joni Sighvatsson (Basquiat).

Iwanyk optioned rights on the film for his company Thunder Road, and will keep the title Troubled Water in the English-language version, according to Scandinavian distribution company Scanbox Entertainment, owned by Sighvatsson.

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Troubled Water, Poppe’s third feature film after Schpaa (1998) and Hawaii, Oslo [+see also:
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(2004), recently won Best Feature Film and the Audience Award at the Hamptons International Film Festival in America.

The drama about two people trying to come to terms with their past and their own fate is currently number ten on the Norwegian box office chart, with some 75,000 admissions since September 22. Produced by Finn Gjerdrum and Stein B. Kvae (Paradox AS), the film is sold internationally by Bavaria Film International, who will screen it to buyers at the upcoming American Film Market in Los Angeles.

Two other Nordic films are being remade in Hollywood by veteran producer Sighvatsson (Palomar Pictures). Now in post-production, Brothers (based on the Danish film by Susanne Bier) is directed by Jim Sheridan and stars Jake Gyllennhal, Tobey Maguire and Natalie Portman; while the US version of the Norwegian hit Elling [+see also:
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will be directed by Jay Roach (Meet the Parents) for 20th Century Fox.

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