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Niccol’s Passion for Sci-Fi is Full ‘Bloom’

Currently being packaged at the Berlin’s Film Market, The Cross would include the likes of Orlando Bloom, Vincent Cassel and Olga Kurylenko, Niccol is looking for an international cast of players who also happen to be popular in English speaking territories.

I guess before finding immersing himself into Dada movement and surrealist biopic turf of the Pacino-starring project titled Dali & I: The Surreal Story, helmer Andrew Niccol will go back to an area that he is suited for with a space odyssey about crossing a mysterious border (which nothing to do with North Korea).

Currently being packaged at the Berlin’s Film Market, The Cross would include the likes of Orlando Bloom, Vincent Cassel and Olga Kurylenko, Niccol is looking for an international cast of players who also happen to be popular in English speaking territories. Bloom plays the protag — a man seeking to cross a border, something that no one else has achieved; while Cassel takes on the role of the antagonist.

Currently in pre-production, the $24 million dollar project is scheduled to start principal photography in July in Australia and is co-production between Australia, France and – Germany.

is being produced by Bluewater Pics in Sydney, Paris’ Spangherabero Films and Berlin’s Opal Film Produktion. Wieland Schulz-Keil, Jonathan Shteinman, Jean-Vincent Puzos, Remi Burah and Niccol will produce; Alexander von Hohenthal is serving as German co-producer.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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