Jeremy Strong Starring in Escape Thriller ‘The Passenger’ From Director Magnus von Horn, FilmNation Launching Sales in Cannes

Jeremy Strong Starring in Escape Thriller ‘The Passenger’ From Director Magnus von Horn, FilmNation Launching Sales in Cannes

Jeremy Strong will star in “The Passenger,” a historical escape thriller from Magnus von Horn. FilmNation Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights, excluding German-speaking territories and Poland, to the film. This marks the English-language debut of von Horn, a Swedish and Polish director whose previous film, “The Girl with the Needle,” was nominated for the Academy […]

'The Passenger': Jeremy Strong To Star In 'The Girl With The Needle' Director Magnus Von Horn's English-Language Debut

Jeremy Strong already has two buzzy upcoming projects: starring as Mark Zuckerberg in Aaron Sorkin‘s “The Social Reckoning,” in theaters on October 9, and a starring role in Netflix‘s limited series adaptation of “The Boys From Brazil.” But here comes another exciting film that actor will lead, the English-language debut of Swedish director Magnus von Horn. Continue reading ‘The Passenger’: Jeremy Strong To Star In ‘The Girl With The Needle’ Dir…

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FilmNation to launch pre-sales on escape thriller in Cannes.

History Repeating Itself: Magnus von Horn Train Hops with Jeremy Strong in 'The Passenger'

Hopefully at some point it’ll lose the over-used, generic title, but on the positive side, Swedish filmmaker Magnus von Horn is setting up his next project — moving into English language terrain with some premium talent in Jeremy Strong. Variety freshly reports that he’ll next direct the book-to-film project The Passenger — which is actually based on a 1938 novel of the same name by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz. This is the project that will be he…

Jeremy Strong to Star in Historical Escape Thriller ‘The Passenger’ from ‘The Girl with the Needle’ Director

Jeremy Strong (“Succession”) will star in The Passenger, a historical escape thriller marking the English-language debut of The Girl with the Needle director Magnus von Horn, Variety reports. Von Horn co-wrote the script with Aleko Gotscheff, based on Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz‘s 1938 German novel of the same name. It follows Otto Silbermann, a respected businessman forced to flee Berlin after the November 1938 pogroms, known as Kristallnacht or…