Add one more post-TIFF sale to the chalk board. Magnolia Pictures are prepping their 2010 calender with the pick-up of an English language Icelandic film featuring Brian Cox and Paul Dano. Not your typical Icelandic production, Indiewire reports that Dagur Kári’s The Good Heart will go the VOD platform release route before the theatrical rollout.
I’m not sure if it’s a Scandinavian thing (Norway’s Bent Hamer featured an often drunken American author in Factotum), but this most takes place in a dive bar. Dano plays a young homeless man named Lucas who is taken under the wing of Jacques (Cox), a bar owner from his fifth heart attack. Knowing his days are numbered, Jacques decides to train Lucas to take over his bar.
Kari’s most internationally know hit to date is Noi the Albino – which was followed up with the little know Dark Horse.
