Post by Admin on Jan 12, 2019 1:52:36 GMT
variety.com/2019/film/news/eddie-murphy-coming-to-america-craig-brewer-1203106137/
Fox Searchlight Pictures has launched production in Austria on “Downhill,” the comedy-drama starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell with Nat Faxon and Jim Rash directing.
The film is an adaptation of the 2014 Swedish film “Force Majeure,” centered on a family barely escaping an avalanche during a ski vacation in the Alps — throwing the family members into disarray as they are forced to reevaluate life, and how they truly feel about each other.
Miranda Otto, Zach Woods, Zoë Chao, Julian Grey, Ammon Jacob Ford and Kristofer Hivju also star. Grey and Ford are portraying the fraternal twins whose parents are Ferrell and Louis-Dreyfus’ characters.
The film’s producers are Louis-Dreyfus, Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman and Stefanie Azpiazu with Ruben Östlund and Erik Hemmendorff serving as executive producers. Faxon, Rash and Alexander Payne won an Oscar for adapted screenplay for Searchlight’s “The Descendants.”
“‘Downhill’ is a tale of bad judgement and moral weakness, so how fitting that Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell embody those values,” Bregman said. “Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, of course, are more than qualified to capture the fallout.”