While Apple is currently negotiating with the major studios to deliver their content in a yet-to-be-determined premium VOD window, Netflix is staying ahead of the competition by producing their own original content. While they’ve made great strides in television, the feature film front is still a burgeoning frontier for the streaming service, but they are making huge leaps and bounds. They’ve got Martin Scorsese‘s “The Irishman” in the works, this fall they’ll drop the blockbuster sized “Bright” starring Will Smith, and now they’ve got another big director under their umbrella.
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Paul Greengrass is headed to Netflix to direct an untitled drama about Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik. In 2011, Breivik dressed in a police uniform, journeyed to Utoya Island outside of Oslo, and murdered teens attending a Labor Party Youth Camp, killing 77 people in total. It was the worst attack on Norwegian soil since WWII, and an incident that made shocking headlines around the world.
Greengrass has penned the script for the picture, which will shoot in Norway, with a very low budget of $20 million. While it was previously reported that the director was gearing up the gangster flick “Ness” at Paramount, possibly with his longtime collaborator Matt Damon in a starring role, it looks like that one is on the backburner for now. But this project falls squarely in Greengrass’ wheelhouse of harrowing true life stories (“United 93,” “Sunday Bloody Sunday“) and is a major coup for Netflix. Filming will begin this fall. [Deadline]
