Update on Lars von Trier’s The House that Jack Built; Will Be Filmed in Two Parts
Debi Moore
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Last we heard about Lars von Trier’s serial killer-themed thriller The House that Jack Built, it was going to be a TV series, but that was back in September of 2014, and since then, quite a bit has changed. Read on for the update!
Per Screen Daily, the project will now be a feature with production kicking off in Sweden this year, followed by a Denmark shoot next year, which Zentropa producer Louise Vesth confirmed at the Cannes Film Fest: “It will take a long time because Lars will work in two different shooting periods; he wants to be able to change the script in between. He wants to follow the thing he started in Nymphomaniac with digressions,” Vesth said.
She continued, “It’s a film about Jack, a serial killer. We follow him over 10 years, and we experience the way he gets into the killings. We follow his murders where he’s taking more and more chances because he wants to make the perfect piece of art… The ending will be fatal.”
The film is casting now, and Vesth said it “will be an American and European cast.” The $9.8m (€8.7m) project will shoot starting in the autumn in the Film Vast area of Western Sweden, followed by a 2017 portion to shoot in Copenhagen. “Lars wants to set the film in the state of Washington, and like with Dancer in the Dark, he wants to find a location in the Film Vast area for this purpose. We will have beautiful, beautiful pictures but also a very terrifying story,” Vesth concluded.
Look for more as it comes!
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