It was all the way back in 2003 that young Hungarian director Nimrod Antal burst on to the scene with Kontroll, a super stylish action-comedy-thriller hybrid revolving around subway workers in Budapest. The film marked Antal as a director to watch and, sure enough, Hollywood was watching and he's been working in English on this side of the ocean ever since with his US career hitting its peak with the one two punch of the Robert Rodriguez produced Predators and 3D concert film Metallica Through The Never. But now he's headed home.
Antal's next film will be his first Hungarian effort since Kontroll, a large scaled biopic of Attila Ambrus - a Hungarian born in Romania who requested asylum in Hungary in 1988 and launched into a string of colorful careers - grave digger, fur smuggler, professional hockey goalie - before establishing himself as the nation's most flamboyant bank robber.
The Whiskey Robber launches production in June with a whopping seventy days of shooting scheduled. The production company responsible for Kontroll is back on board with Bence Szalay, Moga Piroska and Zoltan Schneider starring.