After his US-based thriller, Condition Red, Finnish director Mika Kaurismäki is preparing to shoot Los Angeles without a Map, from Richard Reyner's novel. The film will go before the cameras this spring for his own company, Marianne Films, to be readied for the autumn.
In Berlin, for negotiations with partners Pierre Assoulione, of France's Euro American Films, and Julie Baines, of UK's Dan Films, Kaurismäki said that Scotch actor David Tennant, from the TV series Taking over the Asylum, will play the male lead. French composer Michel Legrand has been signed for the score.
In his book, Reyner (The Blue Suit, Elephant) follows an Englishman in his mid-20s, who falls madly in love with an American girl. He decides to go to Los Angeles to find her, pursuing his own American Dream.
Kaurismäki, who was the first Finn to finance a film with his Eurocard (which was eventually withdrawn) - the
FIM300,000 (US$70,000) Rosso, in 1984 - will need slightly more for Los Angeles without a Map. With nine weeks of principal photography in London, Los Angeles and Las Vegas, the film has a budget of US$6-7 million.
Jørn Rossing Jensen
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