Jan Guillou's Bestselling Crusades Trilogy ''Arn'' to be Adapted for Bigscreen
by Sanem Z / Hot Movie News Crew
After almost a year spent rounding up the $28.7 million budget, Svensk Filmindustri has greenlit Sweden's biggest movie project ever, the screen adaptation of Jan Guillou's bestselling crusades trilogy Arn, says Variety.
The first of two movies based on Guillou's books about a 12th century knight is set for its Scandinavian preem in December 2007. The sequel opens in the fall of 2008.
Pics will be based on scripts by Hans Gunnarsson, who previously adapted Guillou's Evil for the screen. The Mikael Hafstrom helmed movie picked up an Oscar nom in the foreign language category in 2004.
The story is an epic saga about war, friendship, treachery and, above all, love. Each pic will having a running time of 140 minutes and will be in Swedish and English.
Arn is being produced by Svensk's Waldemar Bergendal.
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the screen adaptation of Jan Guillou's bestselling crusades trilogy Arn, says Variety.
