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Sam Worthington is The Candidate

21 July 2009 10:19 PM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »

Sam Worthington, star of Terminator Salvation and James Cameron’s upcoming sci-fi epic Avatar, has signed on to star in The Candidate. Beau Willimon is writing the screenplay and the film is based on the recent Danish thriller Kandidaten. In film, an aspiring lawyer wakes up in a hotel room with scant memories of the woman he met the night before, only to discover she's dead in the bathroom -- and he's about to be blackmailed for her murder. As he fights to clear his name, he uncovers a conspiracy that leads back to his own father's mysterious death. Written by Stefan Jaworski, the original played in theaters in Denmark last year, but has no American distributor at the moment. The original film's producers, Peter Bose and Jonas Allen of Miso Film, will executive produce the remake. Scribe Willimon previously wrote the political play Farragut North, which at one time Warner Bros. »

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