Danish director Lars von Trier - whose Breaking the Waves most recently bagged a French César as Best Foreign Feature, with Emily Watson nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress - will direct his first musical, preliminarily titled Taps, to shoot in 1998, it was announced in Berlin.
Von Trier 'is working on the script, while we look for a composer and choreographer to match his particular style,' said Breaking… producer Vibeke Windeløv, of Zentropa Production, attending EFM.
Set in the US, but scheduled to lens in Sweden, Taps will be the second part of the director's trilogy of 'goodness', begun with Breaking…, which has been sold to more than 25 territories and currently plays 68 screens in America for October Film.
Von Trier also just completed four instalments for his TV soap, Riget (The Kingdom), with another five to go into production next year in a joint venture with Danish pubcaster DR-TV. Crew and cast, including regulars Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Kirsten Rolffes, Holger Juul Hansen, Jens Okking and newcomer Erik Wedersøe, have all signed statements that they will disclose no detail from von Trier's and Niels Vørsel's script.
The new episodes have been shot on 16mm, to be edited on video and retransferred to film, but in a technical process which is more refined than when the first part of the series was blown up from the tape to be theatrically shown in Venice, and later in Berlin.
DR-TV will air Riget 5-8 in autumn 1997, before the domestic theatrical release on 10 November. Handling all rights, Christa Saredi World Sales will launch the production at MIPCOM. JRJ
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