Vikings star
Travis Fimmel has signed on to star in Peter Segal's ("Anger Management")
upcoming sci-fi epic film, Inversion.
"I love Travis'
portrayal as Ragnar, king of the Vikings. I needed my modern-day Peter O'Toole
and I found him," said Segal. "A man who could play a character that
can command a room and make you write a huge check, before you realized he was
gone and you knew you were f—ed."
Written by two-time
Academy Award winner Paul Haggis ("Crash", Letters from Iwo Jima),
David Arata ("Children of Men"), and Bragi Schut ("Season of the
Witch"), Inversion "follows a street-wise American con man, and a
young Chinese physicist as they race against the clock to save Earth from a
terrifying loss of gravity."
2012 saw the
release of a third-person shooter video game also called Inversion published by
Bandai Namco Entertainment, which featured the lack of gravity at the center of
the story and game mechanic. Though the stories seem to be different (the game
also involved an alien invasion, and the lead character was a police detective),
it is unclear if the film is in anyway inspired by the game or if it is just a coincidence.
The film is
the first feature from Markus Barmettler and Philip Lee's Hong Kong/Beijing
production venture Facing East, and will be co-financed by Hong Kong based Pegasus Motion Pictures and Sun Entertainment, with
Huaxia Film Distribution co-producing and handling distribution in
mainland China.
Principal photography will begin in
Dublin on September 12, after which it will move to several location in
Shanghai and Chicago.
Fimmel will next be seen in Duncan
Jones fantasy epic Warcraft opposite Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper,
Toby Kebbell, Ruth Negga, and Clancy Brown.
Source - THR
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