News for
Kasper Barfoed More at IMDbPro »

4 articles from 2009

---

Worthington Is The Candidate

21 July 2009 9:36 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Not to be confused with the Robert Redford film of the same name, Sam Worthington is set to star in The Candidate, a conspiracy thriller which sees the Terminator: Salvation and Avatar star play a man accused of murdering a prostitute.You've got to admit, it looks bad. He wakes up in a hotel room with  shaky memories of meeting a woman the night before, only for her to turn up dead in the bathroom and him to be blackmailed for the crime. As the aspiring lawyer tries to clear his name, he discovers a conspiracy that leads back to his father's unsolved death a year and a half before.It's a remake of Kasper Barfoed's 2008 Danish movie of the same name, with the script written this time by Beau Willimon, a name that we like to think is Jamaican, even though it probably isn't.Anyway, if Terminator was »

Permalink | Report a problem

---

Sam Worthington is The Candidate

21 July 2009 7:50 PM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »

Well dang, is there a movie that this Sam Worthington guy isn’t attached to star in? Okay, it’s not like he’s in every movie, it just seems that way. Having snatched primo roles in Louis Leterrier’s “Clash of the Titans” remake, James Cameron’s “Avatar”, and this summer’s “Terminator Salvation”, Worthington is looking to front the Hollywood remake of the Danish thriller “The Candidate” for Summit Entertainment, the same folks behind the “Twilight” franchise, though this doesn’t look very teen friendly. THR says Worthington will play… …a defense attorney that goes on the hunt for a group of blackmailers when he is suddenly accused of murder. In a nothing-is-what-it-seems fantasia reminiscent of David Fincher’s “The Game,” the mystery ends up tying back into the suspicious death of the lawyer’s father. The Danish original, which doesn’t currently have a Stateside distributor, was »

- Nix

Permalink | Report a problem

---

Sam Worthington Headlining a Us Remake of The Candidate

21 July 2009 4:05 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

Australian actor Sam Worthington is looking to become a producer, too. THR announces today that Worthington is attached to star in a remake of the 2008 Danish thriller The Candidate directed by Kasper Barfoed. Summit Entertainment picked up the rights in a package deal sold with Worthington attached as a producer as well as the lead actor. First-time screenwriter Beau Willimon will pen the screenplay. In The Candidate, a defense attorney goes on the hunt for a group of blackmailers when he is suddenly accused of murder. It's apparently a "nothing-is-what-it-seems fantasia" kind of story reminiscent of The Game. Although this remake is gaining steam in Hollywood, the original Candidate still hasn't even received Us distribution (similar to the situation surround [Rec] and Quarantine). And in case you are worried that Beau Willimon can't write as well as John D. Brancato and Michael Ferris (the two who wrote The Game), he's »

- Alex Billington

Permalink | Report a problem

---

Sam Worthington Becomes The Candidate

21 July 2009 9:24 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

It seems that one of this summer's cyborgs is an ideal candidate for a new remake. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sam Worthington has signed on to star in The Candidate.

Summit Entertainment has picked up the remake rights to the Kasper Barfoed's Danish thriller, and set screenwriter Beau Willimon to write the remake. The film centers on a defense attorney who is trying to track down a group of blackmailers when he ends up being wanted for a murder and the mystery ties in to the death of the lawyer's father.

The original film was released in Denmark last fall, but does not have an American distributor as of yet. No production schedule was released for the remake.

»

Permalink | Report a problem

---

4 articles from 2009

---