Award-winning Danish filmmaker Kristoffer Nyholm to direct new mystery thriller Keepers
300 star Gerard Butler will join Session 9’s Peter Mullan in Danish director Kristoffer Nyholm’s new thriller Keepers, a dark psycho-creeper about trio of lighthouse keepers pitted against each other on a remote island off the coast of Scotland. Joe Alwyn joins the pair as the third “keeper.”
The film will be fully financed by Cross Creek Pictures (Hacksaw Ridge, Black Mass, Black Swan, Rush, Everest).
Production Company Mad as Birds confirmed that the film is set for an early 2017 shoot in the UK. Protagonist Pictures will introduce the project to buyers during AFM this week.
Nyholm, whose TV credits include the classic first series of The Killing from Denmark’s DR, hit UK miniseries The Enfield Haunting and upcoming period adventure Taboo starring Tom Hardy for FX and BBC, will direct Keepers from a script by BAFTA Cymru Nominated screenwriter Celyn Jones (co-writer and star of Set Fire to the Stars) and actor/writer Joe Bone (Castles in the Sky). Keepers will be produced by Andy Evans, Ade Shannon and Sean Marley for Mad as Birds, Butler and Alan Siegel for G-BASE and Brian Oliver for Cross Creek Pictures. The project was brought into Cross Creek by Jason Seagraves who will serve as Executive Producer. The film is cast and co-produced by Reg Poerscout-Edgerton.
Here’s the synopsis: On an uninhabited island 20 miles from the rugged Scottish coast, three lighthouse keepers arrive for their six week shift. As Thomas (Mullan), James (Butler) and Donald (Alwyn) settle into their usual, solitary routines, something unexpected and potentially life-changing occurs- they stumble upon something that isn’t theirs to keep. Where did it come from? Who does it belong to? A boat appears in the distance that might hold the answer to these questions… What follows is a tense battle for survival as personal greed replaces loyalty – and fed by isolation and paranoia, three honest men are led down a path to destruction.
Says director Kristoffer Nyholm of today’s casting: “I feel incredibly fortunate to have Gerard Butler, Peter Mullan and Joe Alwyn leading the cast of ‘Keepers’ – great actors who are deeply committed to this project, and who will go the distance. These men are the strong and unique characters at the heart of this story, which is a journey from innocence to animalistic survival. ‘Keepers’ was great to read, will be an adventure to make, and terrifying to watch!”
We’re always looking for some sort of new kick when it comes to terror and we haven’t seen a decent lighthouse-centric horror movie since John Carpenter’s The Fog. Could Keepers be a keeper? We’ll update you on the production as it proceeds…
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