Academy Award-winning producer Daniel Dreifuss (“All Quiet on the Western Entrance”) has boarded “Crimson Males,” the most recent characteristic from Mexico’s Hari Sama, greatest identified for his lauded autobiographical pic “This isn’t Berlin,” which world premiered at Sundance in 2019.
Described as an “edgy and provocative coming-of-age story” concerning the lifetime of Austrian expressionist painter Egon Schiele, “Crimson Males” hones in on Schiele’s function in reshaping European aesthetics via his intimate relationship with lover and muse, Dominik Van Osen.
Their bond impressed Schiele’s pioneering Expressionist fashion whereas additionally compelling the younger artist to confront his sexually fluid id amidst repressive legal guidelines banning homosexuality in turn-of-the-century Vienna. This romantic saga delves into the emotional complexities of two creative companions turned lovers, which drove Egon’s creative imaginative and prescient whereas he struggled to navigate society’s norms. Schiele, whose provocative artwork was identified for its contorted physique shapes and dramatic traces, died on the age of 28 from the Spanish flu pandemic.
Mentioned Dreifuss: “Following ‘All Quiet on the Western Entrance,’ I proceed to hunt out unbelievable and untold tales that convey edgy and up to date storytelling to historic settings which have a parallel to our world in the present day. When Hari instructed me that the well-known Crimson Males might have been portraits of Egon’s lover who needed to be erased in his life to be immortalized on canvas, I knew we had a film via Hari’s singular take and thrilling voice.”
“Combining the most effective of European, Latin American, and U.S. expertise is a mission for me, significantly lifting voices that mirror the challenges LGBTQIA+ pioneers have endured,” he added.
“Since my first years as a filmmaker, I’ve needed to make a movie about Egon Schiele, after which, some years in the past, I discovered an article that learn: ‘New scholarship has discovered that Egon Schiele’s male nudes from 1910, referred to as his “Crimson Males,” usually are not, as has lengthy been assumed, self-portraits. As an alternative, they more than likely depict the artist’s homosexual buddies, significantly his lover and muse, Dominik Erwin Osen,’” Sama defined, including: “An atom exploded in my thoughts. Via analysis, we discovered that his good friend Dominik Erwin Osen repeatedly fashioned a part of Egon´s life till he instantly disappeared for good. We had discovered a narrative.”
Written by Sama, Max Barron and Diana Coronado, principal pictures of “Crimson Males” is slated to kick off within the fourth quarter of this 12 months. Casting is underway. Andres Budnik and Eben Davidson of Imaginative and prescient Leisure are additionally hooked up to supply.
Identified for his punk-rock sensibility, Sama has change into one in every of Mexico’s most famous administrators, incomes approval for “This isn’t Berlin,” which garnered 12 Ariel Award nominations together with Greatest Image and Greatest Director. He’s at present creating the upcoming Apple TV collection, “Showtime” with Dailyn Rodriguez (“The Lincoln Lawyer”) the place he’ll function govt producer and director of the pilot.
Sama was not too long ago the director and co-showrunner of “El Dentista,” a collection starring Oscar-nominated actor Damián Bichir for Spanish-language streaming platform, ViX.
Dreifuss’ notable credit embody such pics as “Sergio,” concerning the doomed U.N. diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello, and the Oscar-nominated “No” by Chile’s Pablo Larrain, starring Gael Garcia Bernal. He’s additionally an govt producer of mini-series “Ghosts of Beirut.”
Imaginative and prescient Leisure co-CEO Andres Budnik has been integral to increasing the corporate’s worldwide pushed content material and expertise roster, representing Academy Award winners like Gonzalo Maza, amongst others. Producer and former Paramount govt Eben Davidson has backed such main studio hits as “Arrival” and “Florence Foster Jenkins.”
