Karl Urban is Pathfinder
After seeing Karl Urban in the LOTR movies, I would’ve never guessed he’d become the world’s next “action movie star”. But, a few film roles later, it seems that’s just what he’s doing.
Urban is in negotiations to star in Pathfinder, a Viking epic from director Marcus Nispel (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre). The story centers on a Viking boy who is accidentally left behind during a skirmish between the Vikings and Americans Indians. The American Indians raise the boy as their own, but when their village is wiped out in a Viking raid, the adopted Viking becomes his people’s defender in battling the Norsemen. Urban would play the adopted Viking.
The movie is a remake of the 1987 Norwegian film by helmer Nils Gaup. While the original followed Norway’s warlike clans around the year 1000 A.D., the new version is set in North America around the same time, when Vikings inadvertently discovered the continent 500 years before Columbus.
Laeta Kalogridis (Alexander) wrote the script. 20th Century Fox is distributing. Shooting is scheduled to begin in Vancouver on September 21st with a budget in the area of $30 million.
Urban, who also starred in The Chronicles of Riddick, can next be seen in Doom opposite Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. He’s also got another viking pic titled Outlander on his slate.
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