05/10/2005

Prolific scriptwriter Anders Thomas Jensen and director Tomas Villum Jensen are already on the starting blocks, ready to shoot their new comedy Explosive Bomb (Sprængfarlig bombe) at the end of the month, while their previous feature film together The Sun King (Solkongen) is still playing in 68 cinemas since February and among the top grosser local films of the year (345,634 admissions) with…another film scripted and directed by Thomas Jensen: Adam’s Apples [+see also:
film review
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interview: Anders Thomas Jensen
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film profile] (355,000 admissions), representing Denmark at the Oscars nominations 2006.

In this new Jensen/Jensen project, a father takes his two children to the cinema to see the latest film by the internationally acclaimed Danish filmmaker Claus Volter. But the film is far from being the masterpiece promoted on the film’s poster, so Tony wants to get his money back and when he is denied this favour, he decides to meet the director himself. A storyline that sounds very much like a personal attack from Thomas Jensen against the creator of Dogme, Lars von Trier who last May openly criticized in Danish publication EKKO Thomas Jensen for being too prolific as a scriptwriter and not as ‘honest’ –as a hired gun on a film project- as a director writing his own script.

Explosive Bomb will have in the lead roles the same acting duo as in Susanne Bier’s acclaimed Brothers, ie Ulrich Thomsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas. The casting also includes Lars Brygmann, Line Kruse and newcomer Mille Dinesen.
The film is produced by Leila Vestgaard and René Ezra for Nordisk Film and received a DKK 7.5m (€ 1m) grant from the Danish Film Institute. Delivery is set for September 2006.