Viggo Mortensen To Direct Vicky Krieps In Western ‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’
deadline.comViggo Mortensen is set to direct and star alongside Vicky Krieps in the western love story for The Dead Don’t Hurt. The film will start shooting on October 12 in Canada.
The film is a Talipot Studio, Recorded Picture, and Perceval Pictures production, produced by Regina Solórzano (Los Reyes del Mundo), Academy Award® winner Jeremy Thomas (EO), and Mortensen, who also wrote the screenplay.
Talipot Studio is fully funding the film, which will shoot predominantly in Durango, Mexico, where Talipot will manage the production.
The pic will also shoot in Ontario and British Columbia, Canada. HanWay Films will handle worldwide sales and distribution. Set in the 1860s, the film stars Krieps stars as the fiercely independent French Canadian Vivienne Le Coudy who embarks on a relationship with Danish immigrant Holger Olsen (Mortensen).
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