Charlotte Gainsbourg is in talks to star in Lars von Trier's "The Nymphomaniac," an explicit exploration of a woman's erotic life.
Les Films Du Losange, which has distributed all von Trier's films since "Breaking the Waves" in 1996, will release "Nymphomaniac" in France.
Repped by TrustNordisk and produced by Zentropa, pic has also been pre-bought by Artificial Eye (U.K.), Wild Bunch (Benelux), Gutek Film (Poland), Central Partnership (Russia) and Aero Films (Czech Republic).
Pic is at script stage and lensing is slated for next summer or fall.
Penned by von Trier, "Nymphomaniac" will be divided into eight chapters and released in two versions -- a softcore cut for mainstream distribution and a hardcore one.
Gainsbourg starred in von Trier's last two films, "Melancholia" and "Antichrist," which earned her the best actress honor at Cannes in May. "Melancholia" won best film at this month's European Film Awards in Berlin.
Skarsgard told E! News he would star in the film. “Lars called me and said ‘Stellan, my next film will be a porno and I want you to play the lead in it,” Skarsgard said.
The film’s producers haven’t confirmed the casting, but Skarsgard and von Trier have collaborated frequently in the past. The Swedish star got his international breakthrough as the paraplegic who asks his wife to sleep with other men in Breaking the Waves. Skarsgard has also appeared in Dancer in the Dark,Dogville and von Trier’s most recent feature, Melancholia.
On the other hand, The Playlist, [via C7nema], said that Dafoe received a call from von Trier while promoting his new film ’4:44 Last Day On Earth’. Dafoe has said he won’t commit to the film until after finishing the press for his latest.
Speaking in Berlin this weekend, von Trier described Nymphomaniac as an explicit exploration of female sexuality from ages 0 to 50.
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Skarsgard told E! News he would star in the film. “Lars called me and said ‘Stellan, my next film will be a porno and I want you to play the lead in it,” Skarsgard said.
Interesting... Let's see what Lars can come up with.
Charlotte Gainsbourg is back for a third try with Danish director Lars von Trier, signing up to co-star in von Trier's pornographic drama Nymphomaniac alongside Stellan Skarsgard.
Gainsbourg has starred in two of von Trier's most controversial films: the graphic horror film Antichrist, co-starring Willem Defoe; and Melancholia, which got the director banned from Cannes after he made jokes apparently expressing sympathy for Hitler at at press conference.
But Nymphomaniac, which promises to trace “the erotic life of a woman from the age of zero to the age of 50," could be von Trier's most scandalous film yet. Gainsbourg is set to play Joe, a woman who tells the story of her sexual history to the older bachelor Seligman (Skarsgard).
Von Trier plans to shoot both a soft and hardcore version of the English-language feature, with the latter expected to include graphic depictions of penetration. German funding body the NRW Filmstifftung is backing Nymphomaniac with $1.6 million (€1.2 million) in production subsidies. The film will be shot entirely in the German state of North-Rhein Westphalia, where von Trier shot Antichrist. Production is set to begin this summer.
Shia LaBeouf has set his sights on Danish director Lars von Trier's ambitious erotic drama Nymphomaniac, which is set to begin production in September. The Transformers star is in talks to join a cast led by Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Nymphomaniac is the latest indie film to be embraced by the young actor. He's set to hit theaters over Labor Day in John Hillcoat's Lawless and stars in The Company You Keep, directed by and starring Robert Redford, which will premiere at the upcoming Venice Film Festival before making its way to the Toronto International Film Festival. LaBeouf's third indie film in the pipeline is The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman, which recently wrapped production. And he has shown a willingness to appear in erotic material recently, co-starring in an artsy Sigur Ros video. Nymphomaniac follows the erotic adventures of a woman (Gainsbourg) from her youth to age 50, as recounted to her husband (Stellan Skarsgard). It's not clear how big LaBeouf's role would be. Von Trier is splitting the English-language project into two films and will shoot a softer and more explicit version of each. No domestic distributor is aboard, but rights have been sold off in numerous foreign markets. German funding body the NRW Filmstiftung is backing Nymphomaniac with $1.6 million in production subsidies. The film will be shot entirely in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia, where von Trier shot Antichrist. Nymphomaniac is von Trier's his first movie since Melancholia, which made headlines around the world when the avant-garde filmmaker joked aboug being a Nazi while promoting the film at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. He quickly apologized but was banned from the festival. Nicole Kidman, who starred in von Trier's 2003 drama Dogville, suggested in a recent interview that she will play a small role in Nymphomaniac. LaBeouf is represented by CAA, attorney Matt Saver and John Crosby Management.
What a tool.