Réalisation: Afonso Poyart
Distribution: Colin Farrell, Anthony Hopkins
Genre: Thriller
Origine: USA
Sortie: 2014 aux USA
Synopsis: Un serial killer erre, désœuvré, dans New York, traqué sans succès par le FBI jusqu'à l'intervention d'un médium.
Farrell will play an FBI detective who seeks the help of a retired and reclusive doctor to try and solve a series of grisly murders. The doctor has psychic abilities but fell out of the crime solving-game when his daughter died tragically. Desperate, the detective presses the doctor to come out of retirement for one more case, which pits them against a formidable foe.
Hopkins will play John Clancy, a former doctor with psychic abilities who works for the FBI and is drawn into a unique serial killer case that pits him against a formidable foe.
Production begins in May on the film, which was announced back in September of '11. The script has been toiled over by many scribes, including Sean Bailey (now the president of production at Disney), Ted Griffin, James Vanderbilt and Peter Morgan. Producers are Beau Flynn, Tripp Vinson and Matthias Emcke.
After years in development (and we do mean years: this thing has been around so long that Sean Bailey, one of the original writers, is president of production at Disney now), thriller Solace is finally ambling towards our screens. Last May saw Anthony Hopkins circling one of the lead roles, and now he’s locked in alongside Colin Farrell.
Solace, which over the years has seen script contributions from Bailey, Ted Griffin (who originally wrote it as a spec), James Vanderbilt and Peter Morgan, follows what happens when a retired, reclusive doctor (Hopkins) is cajoled back into the public eye by an FBI agent to help solve a series of bloody murders.
See, the doc used to be an ace investigator, helping the authorities to track down maniacs, but lost his nerve when his daughter died tragically. Now there’s a new serial killer out there (played by Farrell) so the doc’s needed for just one more case…
It’s interesting to see Hopkins tracking a serial slasher for once: he already has experience (and an Oscar for) playing the other side of the killer coin, although we suppose Lecter too helped to track down killers.
Afonso Poyart is in the director’s chair, and Journey 2 producers Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson have plucked the script from the thrift shop of turnaround, dusted it off and found the money to get it made. Shooting will start in May.
