'Headhunters' could star Mark Wahlberg, says Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Published Aug 8 2012, 12:49 BST  |  By Daniel Sperling

Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has revealed that Mark Wahlberg could take a role in the US remake of his foreign-language thriller Headhunters.

The Danish actor told Digital Spy that he heard "rumours" of Wahlberg's interest in the film, which is based on Jo Nesbo's novel about a deadly cat-and-mouse game sparked by an art heist.















Coster-Waldau, who stars as mysterious collector Clas Greve in the Norwegian original, also said that he saw the Headhunters remake as a "huge opportunity" to bring the story to a wider audience.

"It's always tricky because the movie has had a release in the States and it did okay, but it was out in 20 screens in all of America," he explained. "No-one's seen it basically, so for the writer, for everyone involved, it's a huge opportunity to reach that audience. I think it's good for them and it will be very interesting to see it."

On the reaction to Headhunters in the UK, Coster-Waldau continued: "Although of course you guys are much brighter than the Americans, it's still niche. You know you're lucky if you get out on three screens and I think this movie came out in a fairly big way and did really well.

"There were friends in England who went and saw it and didn't even know I was in it, they'd heard good things about it. And I think something about that dark sense of humour is in many ways very British... it's a very brutal film, but it's also I think very funny because it takes the whole thing to the extreme."

Headhunters is released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 13.