‘CODA’ Producer Vendôme Pictures Announces Mats Steen Biopic ‘Ibelin’, Sets Morten Tyldum To Direct
deadline.comLos Angeles and Paris-based Vendôme Pictures, producer of the 2022 Academy Award Best Picture CODA, has announced new drama feature Ibelin, based on the real-life story of the disabled, British gamer Mats Steen, who went by the name of ‘Ibelin’ in the gaming world.
Morten Tyldum, who was Oscar-nominated in the best director category for The Imitation Game in 2015, is set to direct and Kyle Killen (Halo) will write the script.
Vendôme Pictures’ Philippe Rousselet and Fabrice Gianfermi are producing alongside Tyldum and producer Guri Neby, whose credits include The Monkey And The Mouth and the series Delete Me, for Neby-Tyldum AS.
Principal photography will take place in the U.S. with production dates yet to be set. When Steen died at the age of 25 from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, his parents Robert and Trude mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life for their disabled son, who had been diagnosed with the illness at the age of four years old.
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