Matthias Schoenaerts will be adding yet another film to his ever expanding CV, as the actor has signed on to star in KURSK, the fact-based survival drama.
Deadline reports that the actor will be reuniting with Thomas Vinterberg, the director of FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD, for the submarine survival tale KURSK.
The film will be based on Robert Moore‘s book “A Time To Die,” based on a script by Robert Rodat (SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, THOR: THE DARK WORLD). The film will commence production this autumn and is based on a true story about the nuclear-powered Russian submarine, the Kursk, which sank during a training exercise in the Barents Sea in 2000. Twenty-three sailors survive the crash and desperately wait for help to arrive while their oxygen runs out minute-by-minute.
Here’s the book synopsis:
At 11:28 a.m. on Saturday, August 12, 2000, high in the Arctic Circle under the roiling surface of the unforgiving Barents Sea, Captain Gennady Lyachin was taking the Kursk, the pride of Russia’s elite Northern Fleet, through the last steps of firing a practice torpedo, part of an elaborate naval exercise. Suddenly, the torpedo exploded in a massive fireball, instantly incinerating all seven men in the submarine’s forward compartment. The horror, however, was just beginning. The full, gripping story of the remarkable drama inside the Kursk and of the desperate rescue efforts has never been told—until now.
Schoenaerts has been enjoying a successful run of movies of late, since his breakout role in BULLHEAD. He has starred in FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD, in THE DANISH GIRL alongside Eddie Redmayne and AliciaVikander and most recently in A BIGGER SPLASH.
Schoenaerts can next be seen on the big screen in the upcoming movie, DISORDER, which arrives in cinemas 25th March, 2016.
