Babelsberg backs 'White Male'
Collet-Serra thriller to shoot in Berlin
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Pic follows a doctor (Neeson) who has a car accident while visiting Berlin with his wife. He wakes from a coma to find he’s been replaced by another man, beginning his frantic quest to find out what happened.
Babelsberg joins Joel Silver’s Dark Castle as a co-producer, part of a five-year deal inked between the two companies last year to co-produce 15 films. That agreement gave Silver easy access to German subsidy coin as well as to the Babelsberg backlot. Babelsberg has co-produced a slew of Silver productions, including “V for Vendetta,” “Speed Racer” and “Ninja Assassin,” all of which shot at the studio outside Berlin.
It’s also partnered on Dark Castle pics that have shot elsewhere, including Collet-Serra’s “Orphan,” Guy Ritchie’s “RocknRolla,” Dominic Sena’s “Whiteout” and Morgan O’Neill’s “The Factory.”
With Berlin playing a vital setting in “Unknown White Male,” the production is expected to receive plenty of regional and federal support.
The studio also is partnering with Roland Emmerich on “Anonymous,” a mystery about William Shakespeare’s possible penchant for plagiarism, which will shoot in Berlin in March.
These projects follow Roman Polanski’s “The Ghost,” which shot at Babelsberg earlier this year. While the pic’s completion has been hampered by Polanski’s arrest in Zurich last month, the director is said to be finishing the film from the Swiss prison where he is being held in time for it to be considered for a slot at the Berlin Film Festival.
“The Ghost” is scheduled to hit German theaters Feb. 18 via Kinowelt.
