Viggo Mortensen is Set To Star in EUREKA Which Will Focus on Native American Culture
Viggo Mortensen (The Lord of the Rings) has jumped on board a new film project titled Eureka. Mortensen is teaming back up with director Lisandro Alonso for the project. The two previously worked together on the 2014 film Jauja.
Eureka is an ambitious project that will span a time period from between 1870 and 2019, and it will focus on Native American culture and locations spanning across the world.
The story is made up of four parts and it’s explained that it will “make the link between times and continents.” Alonso said in a statement:
“I would like to film places, people, and cultures that I regret not to see today on big or small screens. I would be very curious to know what happened to those who then embodied the Amerindian community, how they live today, how they survive. I would really like to understand what it is like to be a Native American nowadays.”
The first part of the film is titled “Western” and it’s set on the U.S.-Mexico border. Mortensen will play a father named Murphy who is searching for his daughter, who has been kidnapped. The second part of the film is titled “Pine Ridge,” and it’s set in South Dakota on a Native American Reservation in the present-day. We don’t have any details on the third part of the story to share, but, Part 4 is titled “Amazonia,” and it centers on a character named Ubirajara, “a member of a far happier indigenous settlement in the Amazon who goes off to dig for gold, contracting, literally, gold fever.”
Alonso went on to say “I want to compare the indigenous tribes in North America with those who live in the Amazon, escaping modernity with the hope of keeping their ancestral traditions alive.” He also goes on to reveal that the story will also be about “capturing the tragedy of modernity, a sense of disconnect with nature and an ancestral past in a world alienated by its pursuit of wealth.”
Mortensen joins the previously cast Chiara Mastroianni, Maria de Medeiros, Viilbjørk Malling Agger, Rafi Pitts, and Jose Maria Yaspik.
This sounds like big project, one that I’m looking forward to seeing.
Source: Variety