This year’s Toronto International Film Festival has seen some amazing films but apparently not a lot of interest from distributors. That’s now changing as apparently a bidding war has sprung for Ilya Naishuller’s Hardcore (review), which is billing itself as the first feature length film shot in a POV style.
According to Deadline, Paramount, Lionsgate and Dimension are all in a bidding war for exclusive global rights to the film, which is now reaching a seven-figure minimum and a 800-1,000 theater screen release. The deal should be made either tonight or tomorrow.
The synopsis for Hardcore reads:
Resurrected with no recollection of his past, a cyborg named Henry (the audience’s POV) and his ally, Jimmy (Sharlto Copley, ‘District 9′) must fight through the streets of Moscow in pursuit of Henry’s kidnapped wife in the world’s first action-adventure film to be entirely shot from the first person perspective.