Alief, the London-based sales agent and production outfit, has swooped on bad ass action comedy “Cop Secret” in the build up to the movie’s world premiere at August’s Locarno Film Festival. Brett W…
president, will introduce the propulsive, high testosterone movie to buyers at Locarno Pro, the Swiss festival’s robust industry program, where it is sure to get tongues wagging.
“Cop Secret” follows Bussi, a tough “supercop” played by Audunn Blöndal who shoots people and destroys stuff, killing a stork at the city pond in front of pre-schoolers and trashing the amusement park.But when Bussi is assigned a new partner – the suave, cultured and self-declaredly pan-sexual Hordur Bess, played by “Black’s Game’s” Egill Einarsson – he begins to lose his cool, fighting an inner struggle while investigating a string of bank robberies where nothing seems to have been stolen.
The film is written by Nína Petersen, Sverrir Thór Sverrison, and Halldórsson and produced by Lilja Ósk Snorradóttir for Iceland’s Pegasus Pictures, which has provided production services on Sky’s “Fortitude” and HBO’s “Succession.”
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