Puskás Hungary
2009
Hungarian 3D animation in production
Egill
Áron Gauder, director of the internationally successful feature animation, Nyócker (The District) is in an advanced phase of his new project, which will be a 3D animation with a very complex visual world. Egill, the Last Pagan will present the adventures of a somehow aggressive viking from Iceland, and the authors are working on it since 2005. In August the crew was already working on the motion capture shooting.
Producers Erik Novák and Tamás Liszka are looking for a world sales agency to represent the movie and according to them the screening of the animatic at the Cannes Film Festival produced positive feedback. Both the Hungarian and English dubbing is completed, in the English version Michael Madsen gave his voice to the main character.
Egill, the Last Pagan has a budget of 3.2 million euros, is planned to be presented in cinemas in the second half of 2011 and is produced by Lichthof Productions Ltd.
Production details:
Egill, the Last Pagan
Budget: 3.2 million euros
