Summary Veteran comic actor Jim Carrey will star in "True Crimes", a murder drama in Poland later this week.
WARSAW (AFP) - Veteran comic actor Jim Carrey will star in "True Crimes", a murder drama set to begin production on location in Poland later this week, an industry insider said Monday.
"Carrey will be filming the US-Polish co-production in Krakow," Tomasz Dabrowski, head of Film Commission Poland, told AFP, referring to the picturesque southern city.
Oscar-winning Polish production house Opus Film will coproduce the drama directed by Alexandros Avranas, Opus Film representative Ewa Puszczynska said via email Monday.
Opus Film produced Ida, a post-Holocaust drama set in Poland and directed by Pawel Pawlikowski, which took home this year s best foreign film Academy Award.
Puszczynska also confirmed the shoot in Poland would last 33 days.
Penned by British screenwriter Jeremy Brock, the script was inspired by "True Crime", a 2008 article in The New Yorker by David Grann.
Canadian-born comedian Carrey, 53, became one of Hollywood s best-paid actors after starring in box office hits like "Dumb and Dumber", "Ace Ventura", "The Mask" and "Man on the Moon", among others.
From Hollywood to Bollywood, Poland has developed a reputation for providing filmmakers with world-class production facilities and crews at a fraction of prices charged in Western Europe.
Roman Polanski and Hollywood mogul Steven Spielberg respectively filmed Oscar-winners "The Pianist" and "Schindler s List" on location in Poland.
India s Bollywood has also discovered it: several hit movies including the top-grossing "Kick" were shot here.
