Ruben Östlund has formally began principal pictures in Budapest on his long-gestated film The Leisure System is Down.
The darkish satire, set on a long-haul flight between England and Australia the place the leisure system fails and passengers are compelled to face the horror of being bored, will shoot within the Hungarian capital over a 70-day interval from January to Might 2025.
The set has been constructed round an actual Boeing 747, which was acquired particularly for the mission.
As taking pictures begins, Connor Swindells, Daniel Webber, Wayne Blair, Dan Wyllie, Lindsay Duncan, Allan Corduner, Sofia Tjelta Sydness, Erin Ainsworth, Myles Kamwendo, Sanna Sundqvist and Tea Stjärne, and Swedish artist Benjamin Ingrosso have additionally been revealed as being a part of the solid.
They be a part of beforehand introduced solid Kirsten Dunst, Daniel Brühl, Keanu Reeves, Nicholas Braun, Samantha Morton and Tobias Menzies.
The Leisure System is Down is produced by Plattform Produktion (Sweden) with Important Movies (Germany) and Parisienne de Manufacturing (France). Co-producers are BBC Movie, Movie i Väst, Sveriges Tv, ZDF/ARTE, ARTE France Cinéma, SF Studios, Eye Eye Photos (Norway), Paloma Productions (Denmark).
The movie is financed by the Swedish Movie Institute, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), the Norwegian Movie Institute, the Danish Movie Institute, with the participation of Canal+, Disney+ and ARTE France and with the assist of Artistic Europe MEDIA.
World gross sales are dealt with by Coproduction Office, and a primary take care of A24 for U.S. distribution rights has already been introduced.
The mission will mark Östlund’s second English-language movie and seventh function after The Guitar Mongoloid (2004), Involuntary (2008), Play (2011), Power Majeure (2014), and his two Palme d’Or winners, The Sq. (2017) and Triangle of Disappointment (2022).