Paul Greengrass Movie About Norwegian Terrorist Who Killed 77 Lands at Netflix
Paul Greengrass (Jason Bourne) will next direct a movie about the horrible 2011 Norwegian terrorist attack where a single shooter murdered 77 people. It was the country’s deadliest attack since WWII. Netflix has won the right to make the film after some heavy competition. Greengrass will also write the movie.
Anders Behring Breivik, a self-described right-wing Christian extremist with a hatred for Muslims, carried out the horrific attack. He started the carnage by blowing up a fertilizer bomb outside a government building that killed eight people. After that, Breivik dressed in a police uniform, took a short ferry ride to Utoya Island outside of Oslo, and hunted down an murdered teens at a youth camp. Since Norway doesn't have the death penalty, Breivik was sentenced to 21 years, the maximum possible sentence.
Deadline Hollywood reports the movie will be shot in Norway at a $20 million budget with local actors. Greengrass is known for his ultra-realistic style used in the 2002 film Bloody Sunday and United 93, the Best Picture-nominated 2007 film that Greengrass directed about the heroism of passengers who lost their lives wresting control of a plane and crashing it in Pennsylvania before terrorists could slam it into the White House or the Capitol Building on September 11, 2001. This sounds like the same kind of project with difficult and troubling subject matter. Greengrass last directed Jason Bourne, and before that Captain Phillips.
No word on an official title or possible release date, but this will surely be one of those films that is difficult to watch, but important to make.