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Netflix has landed Oscar - nominatedCaptain PhillipsandJason Bournedirector Paul Greengrass ' next labor , a plan picture show about Norse terrorist Anders Behring Breivik . The streaming company reportedly outbid five other studios to make the great deal , yet more grounds of Netflix ’s commitment to becoming a vast player in the feature article pic production and dispersion realm .
Since the hiring of former Universal executive director Scott Stuber as Head of Original Films , Netflix has accelerate its efforts to acquire feature motion-picture show projects . Multiple new cinema have been announced under Stuber ’s watch , including Justin Lin ’s BlackPanthers dramaThe Stand Off , Tom Hardy’sNavy SEAL thrillerWar Party , and Gareth Evans’revenge thrillerApostle , among others .
Deadlinereports that Netflix has lend to their telling roll of coming production by outbidding five other studios to landed estate director Paul Greengrass ' pic about Anders Behring Breivik , a Norse extremist who in 2011 went on a murderous violent disorder at a spring chicken camp , bolt down 77 people . Greengrass is set to take the pic in Norway with local actors beginning this fall , working with a budget of around $ 20 million .
Though Greengrass has become associated with the highly - stylizedBourneseries , the director also has established a reputation as a meticulous crafter of true living stories about people under utmost duress . Greengrass received an Oscar nomination in 2007 forUnited 93 , his hyper - realistic account of the grand action at law of rider on the nominal plane after its highjacking by 9/11 terrorists . In 2013 , Greengrass directed Tom Hanks in the Oscar - nominatedCaptain Phillips , a very Hanksian veritable - guy wire - becoming - a - hero account about the hijacking of an ocean bottom by Somali pirates . Considering the very sobering subject matter , we can expect Greengrass ' Breivik film to more resembleUnited 93orCaptain Phillipsthan his threeBournefilms .
Reportedly , Greengrass is place his plannedEliot Ness movieNesson the back - burner to make his Breivik film . Greengrass ' plannedMartin Luther King movieMemphisappears to have stalled , too .
Landing Greengrass ' new project is just another feather in the cap for Netflix as they continue building their catalog of original vent . Already in 2017 , Netflix has relinquish the Brad Pitt war filmWar Machine , Bong Joon - ho ’s creature right hand fableOkjaand the controversial anorexia dramaTo the Bone . Later this year they will release the fantasy chum - pig movieBrightfrom film director David Ayer and author Max Landis , asterisk Will Smith . The streaming outfit is also producing Martin Scorsese ’s challenging decennary - traverse gangster filmThe Irishmanstarring Robert De Niro , Al Pacino , Joe Pesci and Harvey Keitel . They also keepchurning out Adam Sandler moviestoo … for better or for worse .
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