Danish filmmaker Ole Bornedal will direct the thriller 'Death of a Hostess'. We're rather fond of him around these parts having spoken fondly of his films like Deliver us From Evil and The Substitute.
Project was inspired by a Time magazine article by Evan Alan Wright and focuses on a young woman who enters the dangerous underbelly of Japanese nightclubs in order to find her missing sister.
Bornedal wrote and directed last year's Danish thriller "Deliver Us From Evil." He helmed the original "Nightwatch" in 1994 and the English language remake, starring Nick Nolte, Ewan McGregor and Patricia Arquette.
James D. Stern's Endgame Entertainment, Taka Ichise's Ozla Pictures and Aram Tertzakian's XYZ Films will produce the picuture. Endgame's Doug Hansen, Ozla's Erin Eggers, and XYZ's Nate Bolotin and Nick Spicer are exec producing. Ozla's Ben Shiffrin will co-produce.
Bornedal is kinda hit and miss. The original Nightwatch and Just Another Love Story, were great, but I Am Dina and The Substitute didn't do it for me at all. Deliver us From Evil was very stylish, and it worked on a visual level. The story, on the other hand, was a mess, and it had some huge plotholes.