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Von Trier sells his soul to the ‘Antichrist’

After Danish language comedy The Boss Of It All, Lars von Trier is taking on the horror genre with Antichrist – this time as Screen Daily reports he has asked the help from Anders Thomas Jensen to help complete the script. What is curious about this headline is that apparently von Trier once made a point at claiming that Jensen’s work as a screenwriter was too contrived and trivial.

Eric Lavallée

Published on February 1, 2007

After Danish language comedy The Boss Of It All, Lars von Trier is taking on the horror genre with Antichrist – this time as Screen Daily reports he has asked the help from Anders Thomas Jensen to help complete the script. What is curious about this headline is that apparently von Trier once made a point at claiming that Jensen's work as a screenwriter was too contrived and trivial.

The film to be shot in the English language, is set in nature and based on the theory that it was Satan, not God, who created the world.

Director behind The Green Butchers and Adam's Apples, Jensen most recently wrote the characters in Red Road (to be released by Tartan in April) and the screenplay for After the Wedding (to be released by IFC in March).

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Eric Lavallée

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).