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From Stephen King's Under the Dome to Danish Race Walking

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- Danish director Niels Arden Oplev is signed by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment for new US TV series and by Denmark's Nordisk Film for local coming-of-age drama

Having just finished Dead Man Down, a US thriller starring Irish actor Colin Farrell and Swedish Millennium lead, Noomi Rapace, for Neal H Moritz-Ori Marmur-JH Wyman and Original Film, Danish director Niels Arden Oplev has been signed by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment to direct the pilot episode of CBS Television Studios' major 2013 series, Under the Dome, which will be launched next summer.
 
Amblin will initially produce 13 parts of the science-fiction show based on US writer Stephen King's 2009 novel about the town of Chester's Mill in his home state, Maine, which is abruptly separated from the outside world by an invisible, semipermeable barrier of unknown origin. King has approved the screenplay by  Brian K Vaughan (Lost).
 
Arden Oplev's international career took off for real after he directed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (aka Men Who Hate Women/2009) - part one of Swedish author Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy; his first American assignment was several episodes of CBS's Unforgettable series, which is about to begin its second season.
 
At the same time Danish major, Nordisk Film, has received €1 million support from the Danish Film Institute his next local feature, Race Walking, from Danish actor-theatre director Morten Kirkskov's debut novel, Race Walking, which Thomas Heinesen will produce for a February 2014 domestic opening.
 
Inspired by Arden Oplev after his first meeting with Kirkskov, and scripted by Bo hr Hansen, Race Walking is the story 13-year-old Martin, who is in puberty and alternatively dreams of Kristine the girl and Kim the boy, when he suddenly loses his mother.

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