Menno Meyjes is currently busy with post-production on his Spanish bull fighting movie
Manolete starring
Adrien Brody and
Penelope Cruz but attention now turns to what the British based, Dutch born writer/director's next film will be. According to
Variety it will be a $20 million Viking love story titled
Last Battle Dreamer set in 9th century England. Shooting is expected to begin in the fall with Meyjes looking for an American actor to play the lead Viking and a British actress to play the Nobel women who he falls in love with.
"When I moved to England 10 years ago, I was struck by the countryside, how verdant it was and how tempting it must have appeared to invaders, what a ripe piece of fruit it was," he said. "I thought it would be amazing to do a film about a guy who comes from a barren, flinty landscape, and who falls in love with a woman and at the same time with a certain idea of civilization."
The most recent Viking movie was
Pathfinder starring
Karl Urban which was released two months back and has so far only earned $23 million worldwide, a good $8 million short of it's budget. However it would be unfair to make a comparison between the two as Pathfinder was for the most part promoted for it's comic book like violence whereas this will be a love story, more reminiscint of
Braveheart than anything else. Let's not forget there is another Viking movie on the horizon. Starring
Jim Caviezel,
Sophia Myles,
Ron Perlman and
John Hurt the sci-fi movie
Outlander is set to be released before the end of the year.