{"id":32727,"date":"2014-03-03T12:31:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T17:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=32727"},"modified":"2014-03-03T12:31:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T17:31:47","slug":"sony-picks-up-santa-claus-origin-script-winters-knight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/03\/sony-picks-up-santa-claus-origin-script-winters-knight\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Picks Up Santa Claus Origin Script WINTER&#8217;S KNIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/JoachimRonningEspenSandberg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/JoachimRonningEspenSandberg.jpg\" alt=\"JoachimRonningEspenSandberg\" width=\"550\" height=\"275\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32728\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a frantic bidding war over the weekend, Sony has emerged with the screenplay <strong>Winter&#8217;s Knight<\/strong>, Viking-themed reimagining of the legend of Santa Claus. The studio reportedly paid out $1 million for the project, which has <strong>Kon Tiki<\/strong> directors Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg attached.<\/p>\n<p>Sony beat out Disney, Universal, Warner Brothers and others for the project which reportedly mixes Viking elements into the story of St. Nick. That seems like a fair <\/p>\n<p>It is not clear if this will be Ronning and Sandberg&#8217;s next film or not. After they received a Best Foreign Language Academy Award nomination last year for <strong>Kon-Tiki<\/strong>, Disney signed them up to direct <strong>Pirates Of The Caribbean 5<\/strong>, but that project is on hold right now at the studio.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/winters-knight-sony-picking-up-684529\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">KON-TIKI directors Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg are attached to direct.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/03\/sony-picks-up-santa-claus-origin-script-winters-knight\/\" title=\"Sony Picks Up Santa Claus Origin Script WINTER&#8217;S KNIGHT\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[6459,6458,7130],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-espen-sandberg","8":"tag-joachim-ronning","9":"tag-winters-knight"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32727"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=32727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}