Touted as the very first disaster film to hit Norway, last year’s Roar Uthaug-directed The Wave excelled by being so very anti-Hollywood. Rather than embracing the “disaster porn” aesthetic of films like San Andreas, The Wave was wonderfully restrained; the effects took a back seat to the human emotion, making it one of the best disaster movies to come along in recent years.
From the producers of The Wave next comes The Quake, acquired out of Cannes by Magnolia Pictures for release in North America later this year.
Screen Daily reported that the $6.4m project, sort of a spiritual follow-up to The Wave, is inspired by a 1904 earthquake in Oslo. It’s set to begin shooting this coming Autumn with John Andreas Andersen in the director’s chair, and TrustNordisk has already pre-sold it to German-speaking territories (SquareOne), Latin America (California), China (DD Dream), Hong Kong (Sundream), Taiwan (Moviecloud), Middle East (Gulf) and South Korea (AtNine).
The Quake is set to be released in Norway on Aug 30, 2018.
Here’s the first ever teaser trailer with some behind-the-scenes imagery found here.
