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Norwegian Rising Talent Vegard Dahle on Cannes Frontières-Bound ‘Light Years’: ‘More Nordic Noir Than Typical Hollywood Sci-Fi’ (EXCLUSIVE)
The Norwegian sci-fi produced by Blaane Film will be pitched at Cannes’ genre-dedicated Frontières Platform.
Norway’s recent contribution to genre movies has largely been via disaster (“La Palma,” “The Quake”), horror comedy (“The Ugly Sister”), supernatural terror (“Handling the Undead,” “The Innocents”) or fantasy thriller (“Troll”). With his feature debut “Light Years” (“Lysår”) to be pitched at Cannes’ Frontières Platform next month, rising talent Vegard Dahle (“Penthouse”) will expand Nordic Noir into the rarely explored sci-fi realm. Based on the eponymous novel by Dridrik Moritz Hallstrøm, which Dahle adapted for the screen together with the author and Anna Lian, the story turns on astronaut Norway as he awakens on a failing spaceship, his past erased to keep him sane on the lifelong mission.
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