Karl Urban In Talks For 'Pathfinder' Remake


Karl UrbanKarl Urban is in talks to star in Phoenix Pictures Pathfinder, says the Hollywood Reporter.

The feature, helmed by Marcus Nispel, is a remake of the 1987 Norwegian film by helmer Nils Gaup. While the original followed Norway's warlike clans around the year 1000 A.D., the new version is set in North America around the same time, when Vikings inadvertently discovered the continent 500 years before Columbus.

The story centers on a Viking boy who accidentally is left behind during a skirmish between the Vikings and Americans Indians. The American Indians raise the boy as their own, but when their village is wiped out in a Viking raid, the adopted Viking becomes his people's defender in battling the Norsemen. Urban would play the adopted Viking.

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