Eva Green joins The Salvation

By Ian Sandwell / SCREENDAILY

22-04-2013

 

Former Bond girl among latest additions to Kristian Levring´s western [pictured].

Eva Green is among the latest additions to the cast of Kristian Levring´s The Salvation.

Green joins along with Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Eric Cantona, Mikael Persbrandt, Douglas Henshall, Michael Raymond-James and Jonathan Pryce for the upcoming English language western, together with the previously announced Mads Mikkelsen.

Levring co-wrote the script along with Oscar winner Anders Thomas Jensen. The Salvation is set in 1870s America and centres on settler John who, when he kills his family´s murderer, unleashes the fury of notorious gang leader Delarue.

The $13.7m (€10.5m) film has just begun an eight-week shoot on location in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Sisse Graum Jørgense produces for Zentropa Entertainments33 in co-production with Spier Films in South Africa and Forward Films from UK, with the support of The Danish Film Institute and Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR), Nordisk Film & TV Fond and the MEDIA programme of the European Union.

Nordisk Film will release the film in Denmark in Oct 2014. TrustNordisk started presales at this year´s EFM in Berlin and will continue presales in Cannes.