Trailer for Baltasar Kormakur’s new White Night Wedding plus Jar City remake.

Just wanted to point to towards the trailer for Baltasar Kormakur’s new feature film White Night Wedding which will be released on the 17th of this month. The story, a comedy drama, revolves around a man having some second thought about marrying a girl half his age almost a year after his former wife committed suicide.
The film is the results of a workshop that Baltasar and his group of actors who used the Anton Chekhov’s stage play Ivanov as a base, although the films characters or situations are not connected to the play, which they are currently showing on stage here in Reykjavik. The film was incredibly fast in production, with them beginning on the screenplay late January 2007, shot last summer and now premiered not a year later after the writing began. That’s pretty damn fast.
The trailer is unfortunately not subtitled but click anyway.

Now for something completely different.
Jar City was well liked in these parts, so much so that Todd got his name plastered on the front of the Icelandic DVD release, and the film has become Iceland’s most popular movie ever made. Now it has the honor of being the first Icelandic film that has sold its remake rights to a company abroad.
Overture films, the people behind Anchor Bay and Starz Entertainment, have bought the remake rights from Baltasar and Co but when speaking to reporters Baltasar was quick to point out that even though he sold the rights that it is no guarantee that it will ever be made. Hollywood is a fickle beast.
Rumors have also been flying that Baltasar had met with Brit director Kenneth Branagh who had expressed interest in remaking Jar City but had just missed the opportunity. Shame. But there are other books of Jar City’s author Arnaldur Indriðason that that he could tackle I guess.
Regardless it will be interesting to see if anything comes from this.