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‘The Absent One’ Investigates Brutal Murder of Twins…
Danish thesp Pilou Asbaek (A Hijacking) and Swedish actor David Dencik (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy) have joined the cast of Mikkel Norgaard’s dark-edged crimer The Absent One, the sequel to cold-case thriller The Keeper of Lost Causes, Variety reports.
“Another gritty cold thriller, Absent follows Copenhagen detective Carl Morck and his partner Assad as they investigate the brutal murder of two young twins that dates back to 1994. The case was closed after a local outsider pleads guilty but various clues pointed toward a group of boarding school students. As Morck and Assad advance in their investigation, they come across a discarded emergency call from a desperate girl who is being kept silent by a group of influential men.”
Absent is the second installment based on Jussi Adler-Olsen’s best-selling Scandinavian crime novels “Department Q,” which comprises four books. Causes world preemed at Locarno to solid reviews and is set to bow in Scandinavia on Oct. 3.
Asbaek and Dencik will star opposite Nikolaj Lie Kaas (Angels & Demons) and Fares Fares (Zero Dark Thirty).
Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg, the scribe duo behind Oscar nommed A Royal Affair and The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo, penned Absent.
Absent will start lensing on Sept. 23. for an expected release in Fall 2014.
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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