First Poster Art For Patrik Syversen And Nini Bull Robsahm's HELP! WE'RE IN THE FILM BUSINESS!

Ever wondered what would happen if you took the basic premise of Takashi Miike's Audition and re-imagined it as a romantic comedy? Patrik Syversen and Nini Bull Robsahm - the creative team behind Rovdyr / Manhunt - clearly have and the results of their wonderings will arrive on Norwegian movie screens in July.

Glenn has been dumped by his girlfriend. He is lonely, and terribly difficult to deal with. He lives in a commune with three other slackers in their late twenties. To cheer him up, his buddies get a brilliant idea. How about organizing a fakte audtion for a non-existing feature film? The role to be advertised will include all the qualities Glenn is looking for in a girl, and maybe he will find a new girlfriend during the audition rounds. Under the cover of making a film, the boys arrange fictitious casting sessions. After a series of unsuccessful auditions, they find Linda, a girl that Glenn falls for immediately. So much so that he offers her the part in order to be able to hang out with her. Not the smartest move ever. As a relationship starts developing between the two, questions arise. Like, when will shooting start? What's the budget like? Who will play the other roles? It all culminates when it turns out that Linda's mother is a wealthy investor who insists on providing capital for the production. To keep up appearances and to save what may potentially develop with Linda, Glenn and the boys have to start their production and actually make the film.

Though the film does not yet have an official English title the original Norwegian (Hjelp, Vi Er I Filmbransjen) translates basically as Help, We're In The Film Business! That's Dead Snow's Jenny Skavlan on the poster, spitting something onto Odd Magnus Willamson, who the observant among you may recognize from Joachim Trier's Reprise. Skavlan's fellow Dead Snow alum Stige Frode Henrikson also appears in the picture as does Peter Stormare. I don't think I'm spoiling anything by saying that Stormare appears in the film-within-the-film. I've seen an early shot of Stormare's part and I'll simply leave things by saying it's memorable.

With a July release date looming we can surely expect a teaser soon.