Julianne Moore is heading up another U.S. remake of a revered foreign film. She’s set to star in an English-language version of “Night Manager” helmer Susanne Bier’s “After the Wedding,” Deadline reports. The original Danish film received a foreign-language Oscar nod in 2007. Bart Freundlich (“Wolves,” “Mozart in the Jungle”), Moore’s husband, will write and direct the new pic.
Set in New York, the updated story will see two women cast as the leads: “Hannibal’s” Mads Mikkelsen and “Westworld’s” Sidse Babbett Knudsen toplined the original. The new version follows “Isabel, who runs a dilapidated orphanage outside of Calcutta, and … travels to New York to meet the New York millionaire, played by Moore, who has provided money for the orphanage,” the source summarizes. “Following the latter’s wedding, a mystery unravels.”
Paradox Studios is producing “After the Wedding,” and it’s scheduled to start filming this spring.
Moore is also signed on to topline an English-language re-imagining of “Gloria,” a Santiago-set drama that took home three awards at the 2013 Berlinale. Her other upcoming projects include “My Life on the Road,” a Gloria Steinem biopic directed by Julie Taymor, and “Bel Canto,” an adaptation of Ann Patchett’s novel about an opera singer who is held hostage in South America.
The “Wonderstruck” actress won an Oscar in 2015 for her role in “Still Alice,” and previously earned nods for “Far from Heaven,” “The Hours,” “The End of the Affair,” and “Boogie Nights.”
