Thanks to Shock Till You Drop, we have an image from Sam Raimi’s upcoming production Possession. The film is directed by Danish filmmaker Ole Bornedal (Deliver Us From Evil, The Masturbator) and stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Watchmen) and Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer).
The film opens August 31st, and is based on the true events surrounding the ebay purchases of a box containing an evil spirit. If Sam Raimi wasn’t involved, I wouldn’t be remotely interested.
The film opens August 31st, and is based on the true events surrounding the ebay purchases of a box containing an evil spirit. If Sam Raimi wasn’t involved, I wouldn’t be remotely interested.
- 6/21/2012
- by Andy Greene
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
From his eclectic resumé, it's clear that Ole Bornedal likes to challenge himself so (almost always) refuses to return to familiar territory. The Danish writer-director was born in the small town of Nørresundby in 1959, and became a director of Danish radio plays in the 1980s after failing to get into film school. In the early 90s, he moved into television, where he wrote and directed sketch comedy and political satire as well as the colorfully titled TV movie Masturbator (1993). Bornedal made his feature film debut in 1994 with Nightwatch, a thriller about a law student who moonlights as a morgue worker, and returned to the small screen for the television drama series Charlot and Charlotte (1996). When his Hollywood remake of Nightwatch...
- 1/7/2009
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
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