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Two-time Oscar nominee Roy Scheider is returning to our movie screens 14 years after he passed away. The movie Beautiful Blue Eyes will be released on June 10th worldwide after a special charity screening in the United Kingdom on June 6th. This news comes to us from Variety.
The film is set in Germany with flashbacks to Nazi-occupied Poland. Scheider plays Joseph, a retired New York City police officer who goes to Germany to visit his estranged son. While in Germany, he discovers that his son’s neighbor is the Nazi officer who killed his family in Poland during the Holocaust. Coming face to face with the man who killed his family, Joseph must decide what to do, and he enlists his son in an effort to kidnap the former Nazi officer in order to make him pay for his crimes.
Beautiful Blue Eyes will be released by the new company Moviefarm, a company founded co-founded by distribution veteran Martin Myers and Alexander Newton. Myers said of Scheider’s final film, “Beautiful Blue Eyes is a gripping thriller that addresses the premise of what a Holocaust survivor might have done had he come across the Nazi who murdered his family. I’m honored to bring Roy Scheider’s breathtaking final performance to global audiences as Moviefarm’s first release.”
Scheider finished filming his scenes for Beautiful Blue Eyes, however, technical issues had caused many scenes to need to be redone, and the actor had passed away before he could reshoot any scenes. As a result, the production had to wait until the technology was able to produce a workable facsimile of Scheider to complete the production. Recent CGI advancements, such as the ones used to recreate Carrie Fisher in Rogue One and to de-age Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in the season two finale of The Mandalorian, have enabled the production of the film to be completed.
You can watch the teaser below.
Roy Scheider Had a Long and Successful Career
Roy Scheider has had a long history of successful movies in Hollywood. Scheider was seen as a leading man throughout the seventies and early eighties. He was nominated for a Best Leading Actor Oscar for the 1980 movie All That Jazz and for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for the 1975 movie The French Connection. Scheider was also well known for his TV work, most notably in the science fiction series SeaQuest DSV, which saw him return to an underwater role. It was a role he was nervous about taking, however, the show became a fan favorite and, although expensive to produce, was well received by critics and fans alike.
Scheider is probably best known for his role in Jaws, where he uttered the famous and often misquoted line, “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” He later reprised his role in the second Jaws film.
Beautiful Blue Eyes marks the first time Scheider has appeared on-screen since 2009’s Iron Cross, and it is a reworking of that film. Iron Cross had to be completed without Scheider as he passed away while the film was still being produced. He had completed the scenes for the film however technical issues required scenes to be reshot without him. Beautiful Blue Eyes will allow the story to be told the way it should have been with Scheider’s full involvement.
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