Writer-director Menno Meyjes is setting sail on his Viking epic Last Battle Dreamer with Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish and Sean Bean on board, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Scheduled to shoot later this year, the project is backed by Future Films, with Handmade Films International handling sales duties.
Phillippe will star as a seventh-century Viking warrior named Thorfinn who, along with his older brother, the battle-scarred Hakon (Sean Bean), invades Britain.
Phillippe and Cornish will next be seen together in Kimberly Pierce’s Stop Loss.
Meyjes is now completing post-production on his biopic of Spain’s most famous matador, Manolete, starring Adrien Brody and Penelope Cruz.
New Line Cinema will release Meyjes’ Martian Child, starring John Cusack, on November 2.
