Netflix is re-teaming with SF Studios on “The Convention,” a high-concept Swedish comedy slasher movie primarily based on a novel by Mats Strandberg, one in all Scandinavia’s most profitable horror writers.
Patrik Eklund (“We Obtained This”) directed the movie with a forged led by Katia Winter (“Sleepy Hole”), Adam Lundgren (“Hilma”) and Eva Melander (“Border”).
Penned by Thomas Moldestad, the film revolves round a team-building convention attended by municipal staff which spirals right into a nightmare when accusations of corruption start to flow into and plague the work surroundings. Concurrently, a mysterious determine begins stalking and murdering the contributors one-by-one.
SF Studios, which beforehand delivered “Snabba Money,” “Pink Dot,” “Loving Adults” and “Ehrengard” for Netflix, is producing the movie which is slated to be launched globally on the streamer later this 12 months. The shoot not too long ago wrapped.
Strandberg can be an government producer of movie. His books have been printed in over 30 international locations. His profitable guide “The Circle,” written along with Sara B. Elfgren, was additionally tailored right into a characteristic movie in 2015.
“It has been implausible to function an government producer on “The Convention.” We’ve had manner higher environment in our conferences, than the characters within the movie,” mentioned the creator. “Thomas Moldestad and Patrik Eklund have carried out an unbelievable job of capturing not solely the blood and the strain, but additionally the humor and the on a regular basis awkwardness that may solely happen at a Swedish convention,” Strandberg continued.
Eklund beforehand directed collection equivalent to “The Playing Scandal,””We Obtained This” and the quick movies “Finito” and “The An infection.”
“It’s an honor to deliver ‘The Convention’ to the display screen along with SF Studios and Netflix. With Mats Strandberg’s distinctive novel as a mannequin and an outstanding forged, this movie has all of the potential to turn into a future traditional,” mentioned Eklund, who described the undertaking as a “very bloody, entertaining, and gripping story in regards to the unsung anti-heroes of the general public sector.”
Ina Sohlberg, who’s producing the movie at SF Studios, mentioned with the ability to make a movie like “The Convention” is “a dream come true.”
“The collaboration with Mats Strandberg, our screenwriter Thomas Moldestad and director Patrik Eklund has been impressed and joyful,” mentioned Sohlberg.
