Cineuropa is confirming that Hungarian filmmaker László Nemes (“Son of Saul”) has found funding for his third feature, “Orphan”, set to be a co-production involving Hungary, France, Germany and the UK. The goal is for shooting to start sometime this year,
This will be another historical film for Nemes. It will follow a young boy in Budapest in 1957, one year after the Hungarian Revolution, which saw a failed uprising against the USSR.
It’s been six years since Nemes’ last film, 2018’s “Sunset,” which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, but was seen as a disappointing follow-up to his landmark 2015 film “Son of Saul,” which won the Grand Prix at Cannes and the Best International film Oscar.
“Sunset” was inevitably going to be a letdown, even though, I found, it was actually a good film. Expectations were too high for it — there was no way it could match Son of Saul’s success which, in my books, still stands as one of the great filmmaking debuts of the last 30 years.
Paul Greengrass’ "The Uprising," starring Andrew Garfield, opened to $3.2M from 2,068 theaters this weekend. Yikes. The budget hasn’t been disclosed, but is said to be in the $20-$30M range.