As we recently told you, Matt Dillon is playing a serial killer in Lars von Trier’s upcoming thriller The House That Jack Built, and today brings our first look out of EFM.
The image (above) comes courtesy of Variety, and as the Danish filmmaker described to the site, it’s “an evocative photo with a cinematic reference.” Give up? The first look image is a tribute to a very similar shot from the 1932 German horror film Vampyr, directed by another Danish filmmaker: Carl Theodor Dreyer.
Variety also reports that The House That Jack Built, filming soon, has just been pre-sold in Germany, Austria, France, Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Hong Kong, Russia, Hungary, the Baltic States, and the Middle East.
The House That Jack Built follows the highly intelligent Jack (Matt Dillon) over a span of 12 years and introduces the murders that define Jack’s development as a serial killer. We experience the story from Jack’s point of view, while he postulates each murder is an artwork in itself. As the inevitable police intervention is drawing nearer, he is taking greater and greater risks in his attempt to create the ultimate artwork.
Bruno Ganz will co-star.
Produced by Louise Vesth at Zentropa Group, the film will shoot in Trollhättan, Sweden, and in Copenhagen.
Here’s the aforementioned shot from Vampyr…
