Matthias Schoenaerts and Lea Seydoux dream of submarines
Friday, May 12, 2017 at 12:31PM by Murtada
When you think Matthias Schoenaerts and Lea Seydoux, do you think of submarines? Schoenaerts of the smoldering look, hulking presence and that dimpled smile that shattered many hearts to Rust. Seydoux,who perfected the sexy butch walk when she went Blue. Well Thomas Vinterberg decided to put those two together in a movie about a sinking submarine -- not the story many imagined they’d be paired in.
The film, titled Kursk like the ship, started shooting this week. It is based on the true story of a Russian nuclear-powered submarine that sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea in August 2000. Kursk will tell the story of the 23 sailors on board fighting for survival and of their families at home trying to save them despite bureaucratic obstacles. Schoenaerts is the captain and Seydoux will play his wife. The film also stars Colin Firth, Max Von Sydow and Toni Erdmann’s Peter Simonischek. Anthony Dod Mantle will lense, and we hope he lights Schoenaerts as lovingly as Charlotte Bruus Christensen did in his first Vinterberg collaboration, Far From the Madding Crowd (2015).
A new film from Vinterberg is always cause for celebration, and a tense thriller is different than what he has already shown us. We just hope somehow he lets Schoenaerts and Seydoux bring their sexy on. In the meantime, tell us what would you cast these two in?
Reader Comments (10)
All I see is the same basic white faces making basic white Hollywood movies that don't reflect the diversity of American society. Count me out.
I didn't think Dod Mantle and Vinterberg would ever work together again.
They haven't worked together since the critically lambasted A Man Comes Home - I think the harsh reception of that movie movie really took a toll on their collaboration, combined with the fact that Dod Mantle started to work exclusively on big international productions.
I think Dod Mantle is an overrated DP but whatever...
About Seydoux and Schoenaerts an - brace yourself for their Russian accents!!
I hope it's not too silly.
It's silly enough, of course, that they will be speaking English when they're supposed to be Russians!
I fucking hate that Hollywood/Movie contrivance of characters speaking English when they're not suppsoed to be speaking English!
beyaccount: Odd reaction. Every person mentioned in this project does not work in Hollywood, or America for that matter. A bunch of white Europeans working on an independent film should have no bearing on America's diversity.
Seydoux as the concerned wife. Meh
Wait, so unless there are flashbacks or the story doesn't get started for a while then the two stars won't even be in the same room together? I think the director might need some remedial chemistry lessons since I would expect these two to sizzle.
beyaccount - Nice try for trolling LOL. If you read closely:
-This is an European production
-Based on real life events of Kursk disaster in 2001
-Schoenaerts and Seydoux actually played WHITE RUSSIANS. Unless you reclaim the lack of opportunity of Slavic actors, your reclamation is simple ridiculous, considering the majority of people in THIS event is actually white.
I'm for all to the diversity, but sometimes, these reclamations from SJW related to casting came too far and even out of equation as for the project, like beyaccount mentioned.
Sorry - The correct phrase is - Schoenaerts and Seydoux are actually playing WHITE RUSSIANS.
Anyway, just in case of information beyaccount (lol), the real event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kursk_submarine_disaster
That is one hot movie couple
"what would you cast these two in?"
A remake of Don't Look Now?
Allied, the alternative version