Nikolaj Coster-Waldau to Star in SUICIDE TOURIST

"Game of Thrones" star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau will star in the mystery drama with romantic elements, "Suicide Tourist," according to Variety. The film is from Copenhagen-based Snowglobe, whose production credits include "Thelma," "The Untamed" and "Birds of a Passage." Coster-Waldau will star opposite Sweden's Tuva Novotny.

Snowglobe describes "Suicide Tourist" as its most ambitious to date, saying. This film is Danish director Jonas Alexander Arnby's follow-up to his breakout debut "When Animals Dream." "Suicide Tourist" will be introduced to buyers at next week's American Film Market in Santa Monica by Charades, the Paris-based company who has acquired world sales rights to the film.

This film follows an insurance claims adjuster, Max, investigating a man's disappearance. The trail leads him to a uniquely secretive hotel that offers its guests elaborate assistance in fulfilling their fantasy suicides. Caught in his own existential crisis, Max begins to question his perception of reality and wonders if death is the only way out of the hotel.

Currently shooting in Norway, "Suicide Tourist" will wrap production in November and be ready for delivery in spring 2019. Arnby described the film as "the weird and emotional love story I always wanted to make." It is written by Rasmus Birch, who also wrote "When Animals Dream" and 2011's ROME and Tallinn Fest winner "Brotherhood."

Coster-Waldau said he was excited to be working "on a truly original, thrilling and moving love story....We are halfway through the shoot, and my enthusiasm has only increased seeing the set design, the work by our DP Niels [Thastum] and my fellow actors."

The film's cast also stars Denmark's Sobjørg Højfeldt; Britain's Robert Aramayo and Lorraine Hilton; France's Slimane Dazi; Belgium's Jan Bijvoet; Denmark's Sonja Richter ; Norway's Kaya Wilkins; and Germany's Johanna Wokalek.

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