Schoenaerts and Roskam previously worked together in the Oscar nominee Round scopein Roskam’s US debut The Drop and in the Brussels gangster film The Faithful. “I now have a form of trust with him, a unity, a friendship”, Roskam told this newspaper a few years ago about his collaborations with Schoenaerts. “It is always a very personal collaboration. That creates inspiration and enthusiasm.”
The False Evening will tell the story of the eponymous newspaper that Belgian resistance fighters made in 1943. It was a satirical version of The evening, the Belgian newspaper that collaborated with the German occupiers. “It is a contemporary and very relevant topic. It’s about free speech, about free press and about people being free to say and think what they want,” Roskam said. Deadline. “But also that they have the freedom to laugh at everything. There are many echoes of it Charlie Hebdo in. These guys risked their lives to make people laugh.”
Nicolas Karakatsanis, another regular member of Roskam’s team, will be behind the camera for the fourth time. Roskam wrote the screenplay himself. Filming should start later this year.
