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Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #147. Jalmari Helander’s Big Game

Published on February 10, 2014

Big Game

Director: Jalmari Helander
Writers: Jalmari Helander, Petri Jokiranta
Producers: Altitude Film Entertainment, Cinet, Egoli Tossell Film, Subzero Film Entertainment
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Samuel Jackson, Jim Broadbent, Ray Stevenson, Ted Levine, Onni Tummila, Felicity Huffman

After creating a new cult Christmas film with his 2010 debut, Rare Exports: A Christmas Story, the Finnish director should finally be unleashing a follow-up this year with an equally intriguing sounding project featuring an American president played by Samuel Jackson, who must seek help with an adolescent boy in the woods. Helander describes the project as an epic adventure film. Count us in.

Gist: A young teenager camping in the woods helps rescue the President of the United States when Air Force One is shot down near his campsite. br>

Release Date: While Rare Exports premiered at Locarno, Helander’s latest should land a high profile premiere somewhere, perhaps SXSW or a later fall fest.

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Nicholas Bell

Los Angeles based Nicholas Bell is IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic and covers film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and TIFF. He is part of the critic groups on Rotten Tomatoes, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and GALECA. His top 3 for 2021: France (Bruno Dumont), Passing (Rebecca Hall) and Nightmare Alley (Guillermo Del Toro). He was a jury member at the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival.