Magnolia Rides The Wave to Disaster
You give us a good disaster movie around here, and we’re glued to the screen with popcorn falling out of our mouths. Yep, sometimes there’s no greater monster than Mother Nature, and she releases some nasty old-fashioned fury in the upcoming film The Wave, aka Bølgen. Speaking of which…
Variety is reporting that Magnolia Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to the Nordic disaster movie on the eve of its screening at the Toronto Film Festival.
Directed by Norwegian Roar Uthaug, The Wave is Norway’s official entry for the Best Foreign Language Academy Award this year.
The film is based on the 1934 real-life tsunami in Norway’s Tafjord, which left 40 people dead. The Wave opened last month’s Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund and posted the third-best opening in Norway for a local film during the final weekend of August.
The screenplay, written by John Kåre Raake and Harald Rosenløw Eeg, is set at Geiranger Fjord, one of Norway’s top tourist attractions. It takes place in contemporary Norway and centers around a geologist who realizes the inferno is about to hit.
Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp, Jonas Hoff Oftebro, and Fritjof Saheim star in Uthaug’s fourth feature, which was produced by Martin Sundland and Are Heidenstrom for Fantefilm Fiksjon.
The film has also been selected for the Fantastic Fest in Austin and the BFI London International Film Festival, which runs from October 7 to 18.
“The Wave is an incredibly accomplished action spectacular with phenomenal special effects,” said Magnolia President Eamonn Bowles, “but it’s also beautiful filmmaking with multi-dimensional characters and terrific acting.”
Synopsis:
There are more than 300 unstable mountainsides in Norway–one of the largest is Åkerneset, a system of expanding cracks 800 meter long. It is accepted fact that one day it will fall, and when it does, the resulting rockslide of rock will create an 80-meter high tsunami that will hit the local community of Geiranger after just 10 minutes. This is the premise of THE WAVE, a pulse-pounding adventure about a family racing to survive the oncoming catastrophe.
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