U.S. audiences are finally getting the chance to see “A Second Chance” in theaters. Susanne Bier’s kidnapping drama debuted at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival and was released in Denmark in 2015, but the film just secured a theatrical run stateside thanks to Rock Salt Releasing. Deadline broke the news.
“Game of Throne’s” Nikolaj Coster Waldau stars as a Danish cop who kidnaps a neglected baby from drug addict parents.
The source attributes the long-delayed acquisition to Donald Trump’s headline-making immigration policy that has resulted in children being separated from their parents. Rock Salt confirms the theory. “I was shocked to see such a moving story hadn’t reached the U.S., and with the baby snatching in the spotlight, we thought now would be a relevant time,” said Daisy Hamilton, chief of Rocksalt.
Maria Bonnevie (“I Am Dina), Nikolai Lie Kaas (“Angels & Demons”), and Lykke May Andersen co-star in “A Second Chance.” The pic’s theatrical run will kick off in LA in July as well as other select theaters.
Bier’s “In a Better World” took home the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2011. She won an Emmy in 2016 for directing AMC spy thriller “The Night Manager.”
“Television is a popular art form that is truly global. There’s less space for the conventional, predictable assumptions of film production that dictate that, as a female director, I can only do romantic dramas and comedies,” Bier has said. She clarified that television is “is not a feminist utopia” and emphasized, “the entire entertainment industry has much work to do to reflect the diversity of its audience. “There’s still something threatening about a female vision when it strays beyond the ‘woman’s picture,’” she observed. “The industry is in desperate need of new perspectives.”
Bier’s latest film, “Bird Box,” is currently in post-production. The post-apocalyptic thriller sees Sandra Bullock playing a mother who embarks on a dangerous journey alongside her two kids.
