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. That original pic, which scored two Oscar nominations in 2017, was written and directed by Hannes Holm and based on Fredrik Backman’s 2014 New York Times bestselling novel.as Otto, not Ove, and in this case in Pittsburgh, not a small Swedish town. Otto is in deep mourning after the loss of his wife to cancer; he has given up on being happy and kind to others and would mostly prefer greatly to join his beloved in the great beyond.
, which among its seven Oscar noms was one for Magee for his adapted screenplay. He would score his second nom in the category in 2013 for“The only thing we had to do was make sure that it was written and directed properly,”of approaching the remake. “And so nothing was nothing was gonna happen until [screenwriter] Dave McGee and Marc Forster came along and said, ‘We think we know why we want to make this movie. Do you guys agree?’ And thank God they did.
Hanks, Rita Wilson, Gary Goetzman and the Swedish film’s original producer Fredrick Wikstrom Nicastro are producers.
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