{"id":6218,"date":"2023-01-12T22:55:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T22:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/?p=6218"},"modified":"2023-01-31T22:57:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T22:57:20","slug":"deadline-otto-screenplay-1-12-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/deadline-otto-screenplay-1-12-23\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Man Called Otto\u2018: Read The Screenplay For Tom Hanks-Starring Remake Of A Swedish Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u2018A Man Called Otto\u2018: Read The Screenplay For Tom Hanks-Starring Remake Of A Swedish Hit: <\/h1>\n

Editor\u2019s note: Deadline\u2019s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year\u2019s movie awards races.<\/p>\n

David Magee had two pieces of source material to work from for A Man Called Otto, the Marc Forster-directed Columbia Pictures remake of the hit Swedish film A Man Called Ove. That original pic, which scored two Oscar nominations in 2017, was written and directed by Hannes Holm and based on Fredrik Backman\u2019s 2014 New York Times bestselling novel.<\/p>\n

In all instances, the plot centers on a curmudgeonly man \u2014 in the latest case played by Tom Hanks as Otto, not Ove, and in this case in Pittsburgh, not a small Swedish town. Otto is in deep mourning after the loss of his wife to cancer; he has given up on being happy and kind to others and would mostly prefer greatly to join his beloved in the great beyond. That\u2019s before a new family led by Mariana Trevi\u00f1o moves in next door, and Otto slowly begins to thaw.<\/p>\n

The project reunited Magee with Forster who previously teamed on 2004\u2019s Finding Neverland, which among its seven Oscar noms was one for Magee for his adapted screenplay. He would score his second nom in the category in 2013 for Life of Pi.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing we had to do was make sure that it was written and directed properly,\u201d Hanks told Deadline recently of approaching the remake. \u201cAnd so nothing was nothing was gonna happen until [screenwriter] Dave McGee and Marc Forster came along and said, \u2018We think we know why we want to make this movie. Do you guys agree?\u2019 And thank God they did.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sony swooped in to acquire global rights to Otto at last year\u2019s European Film Market for a market-record $60 million. The pic opened in six L.A. and New York theaters on December 30 and scored the year\u2019s highest per-screen average. It\u2019s at $5.8 million domestic now after a limited expansion this past weekend, with a wide release beginning Friday.<\/p>\n

Hanks, Rita Wilson, Gary Goetzman and the Swedish film\u2019s original producer Fredrick Wikstrom Nicastro are producers.<\/p>\n

View this article or read Magee’s script at Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018A Man Called Otto\u2018: Read The Screenplay For Tom Hanks-Starring Remake Of A Swedish Hit: Editor\u2019s note: Deadline\u2019s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year\u2019s movie awards races. David Magee had two pieces of source material to work from for A Man Called Otto, the
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