New Director For Grand Seduction Film

Actor and filmmaker Don McKellar has been named the newest director of “The Grand Seduction,” stepping up in what one producer has called a “situation of emergency.” McKellar will direct the film, an adaptation of the French-Canadian 2003 blockbuster



“La Grande Séduction” produced by Montreal-based company Max Films and St. John’s producer Barbara Doran, which will be shot in Champney’s, Trinity Bight, starting in July. The area has also featured in “The Shipping News” and “Random Passage,” also produced by Doran.

The film has a budget of $11 million, and most of the cast and crew are said to be locals. McKellar is the third director hired for the film since it was set to start shooting late last August.

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The Quebecker comedy La grande séduction will have an English Canadian, French and Italian remakes.

The English Canadian version will be shot in Newfoundland-and-Labrador, an Atlantic province of Canada and will be known as The Grand Seduction. This film with a budget of $11 M will be shot between August 28 and November 15.

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