Tommy Wirkola on directing Netflix’s latest dystopia thriller
Norwegian director Tommy Wirkola’s best known films are Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, starring Jeremy Renner as Hansel, a witch hunter, and Dead Snow, starring an assortment of people as Nazi zombies. His latest work, What Happened to Monday, a dystopian sci-fi movie picked up by Netflix at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, has very little to do with either.
What Happened to Monday stars Noomi Rapace, the “girl with the dragon tattoo” in the original, Swedish adaptation of the Millennium series, as seven identical sisters. They’re forced to live in hiding in a near-future with a one-child policy — enforced by Glenn Close as the terrifying tech-CEO-turned-dictator who presides over the Child Allocation Bureau. So their…
