Let's be perfectly blunt here: Child 44 was pretty damned terrible. It was a remarkable feat of incompetence given the talent on both sides of the camera, but the bulk of the responsibility lay with director Daniel Espinosa. His promising career took off with the crime flick Snabba Cash, then he hit it big with Safe House, but now he's hit a bump in the road. Hopefully his next project will get him off the snide.
Espinosa will direct an adaptation of Vilhelm Moberg’s The Emigrants, penned by Kon-Tiki screenwriter Petter Skavlan. The first of four novels centered on the immigrant experience, the story takes place in the 1840s and follows a poor Swedish family's immigration to America. Jan Troell adapted the first two books into a 1971 film that earned five Academy Award nominations.
A 2017 start date is being planned right now, which should give Espinosa time to work on something else if he so chooses. [ScreenDaily]
