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Bri­an De Pal­ma is return­ing to film­mak­ing after half a decade out

04 May 2017

Words by Amy Bowker

A man with a grey beard wearing a white shirt, looking intently at camera equipment.
A man with a grey beard wearing a white shirt, looking intently at camera equipment.
The Scar­face direc­tor has board­ed Domi­no, with Christi­na Hen­dricks and Niko­laj Coster-Waldau.

Bri­an De Pal­ma is set to return to direct­ing with a con­tem­po­rary crime thriller called Domi­no, which will begin film­ing in the sum­mer. Nor­we­gian writer Pet­ter Skav­land, who penned the screen­play for 2012 his­tor­i­cal dra­ma Kon-Tiki, has writ­ten the film.

Domi­no tells the sto­ry of a Dan­ish police offi­cer (Niko­laj Coster-Wal­dau aka Jaime Lan­nis­ter in Game of Thrones) that goes rogue to pur­sue a ter­ror sus­pect in the wake of his partner’s untime­ly death. Christi­na Hen­dricks plays the offi­cer that joins him on the jour­ney, lat­er to uncov­er that they’re hot on the trail of an ISIS cell.

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De Pal­ma is noto­ri­ous for divid­ing crit­i­cal opin­ion, and for direct­ing such mod­ern clas­sics as Scar­face, The Untouch­ables and Mis­sion: Impos­si­ble. Most recent­ly he helmed Pas­sion back in 2012, which starred Rachel McAdams and Noo­mi Rapace and received luke­warm reviews.

The project has been announced just ahead of the 70th Cannes Film Fes­ti­val, where it promis­es to be one of the most pop­u­lar films up for pur­chase at the fes­ti­val. Domi­no is being pro­duced by Michael Schon­ne­mann and co-pro­duced by Anto­nio Perez Perez and Jaque­line de Gooeji.

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