Helsinki-based manufacturing firm It’s Alive Movies has boarded upcoming “Copernicus Secrets and techniques” as ca o-producer, becoming a member of Orka Studio’s Magdalena Zimecka (Poland) and 4film’s Anita Juka (Croatia.)

Lately, Orka co-produced Naomi Watts survival drama “Infinite Storm” by Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert, in addition to Marta Minorowicz’s “Phantasm.”

“We wish to strive new issues and now we have by no means been concerned in this type of co-production earlier than. Copernicus was an mental big, whose imaginative and prescient had an amazing impact on trendy science. In a method, this story has been related for the reason that 15th century,” stated Finland’s Jani Pösö.

Operating It’s Alive Movies alongside director and longtime collaborator Teemu Nikki, Pösö can be behind “Euthanizer,” Finland’s 2018 Oscar submission, Venice-winning “The Blind Man Who Did Not Wish to See Titanic” or youngsters’s movie “Snot & Splash – The Thriller of Disappearing Holes,” starring Pekka Strang.

At the moment, the duo is purchasing their new function “100 Liters of Gold.” Offered on the Nordic Movie Market, it exhibits two sisters well-known for his or her Finnish farmhouse ale referred to as “sahti”. When the third sister decides to get married, they got down to produce 100 liters of the beverage. But it surely’s so good, they find yourself ingesting all of it – simply earlier than the marriage. 

“We’ve got already labored with Orka on ‘Snot & Splash,’ however we truly began speaking about co-producing [a project together] again in 2019. They’ve an ideal can-do angle and ‘Copernicus’ has the potential to journey like hell,” added Pösö. 

“His story is part of European historical past and one which has a great deal of untold particulars.”

Nicolaus Copernicus, born in 1473, was a Polish astronomer. He proposed that the Earth and different planets revolve across the Solar. However the movie, written by Teodor Kosch – additionally serving as inventive producer – and overseen by producer Hélène Zaleski of Lutetia Movie, gained’t be a “typical historic or biographical movie.” Michał Oleszczyk has been tapped as script marketing consultant. 

“The aim of our challenge just isn’t solely to current his genius, but in addition to point out, by this excellent determine, dynamic modifications that came about in Europe within the fifteenth and sixteenth century,” stated Kosch. The Polish Movie Institute has backed the screenplay. 

“It’s concerning the divisions between the Japanese and Western world, revealing previous feuds, provoked by totally different pursuits of empires whose traditions at the moment are being continued. In outlining these mechanisms, we additionally gained’t shrink back from displaying the method of falsification of historical past. It was helpful to sure forces within the 15th century. Right this moment, it additionally has harmful potential.” 

Kosch referred to as Copernicus “an influencer of his time and a rebellious idol adopted by crowds.”

“This movie provides us a possibility to current the destiny of some of the well-known Polish scientists underneath the disguise of journey cinema, but it surely additionally serves as an exquisite metaphor, exploring historic guidelines that also have an effect on our trendy occasions.” 

Orka’s Magdalena Zimecka noticed: “We’ve tried our greatest to be a powerful co-producing accomplice for years now. Our post-production services and our personal VFX workforce permit us to hold out technologically demanding tasks.”

“We’re dedicated to being in each challenge from the very starting, additionally as a result of it’s a pleasure to look at the inventive course of already on the improvement stage. Our cooperation with Lutetia suits the invoice completely. We actually imagine in ‘Copernicus.’ This character guidelines! Particularly on this incarnation.”