…  He goes out of seventy days of shooting in May, June and July on locations in Canada and Europe.   Koolhoven: “Guy has already started with a dialect coach, Mia soon begins to learn sign language.” The budget of 10 million euros he thinks with “this cast probably be able to pick up in Hollywood, but I do like to keep control and final cut for the film “.

Brimstone is the first film of Koolhoven since Oorlogswinter that attracted nearly 840,000 visitors in 2008 and was also viewed in other countries. In the previous seven years Koolhoven had five feature films and a made for TV movie, from arthouse film Amnesia to multicultural comedy The schnitzelparadijs . “I was then offered of everything, including a British romcom. I was rummaging through, but I was wondering: what do I really want? That was a western. “

A western take on not Drunen: it had to be an international production. Grasduinend available by western scripts Koolhoven came across a western comedy – “a little with Tarantino vocabulary” – which he liked. But during a year went by rewriting “the postmodern tone” stand against him and he started to think about their own script. “I love spaghetti westerns. In the sixties, which were perceived as more realistic, but that she was not unique. They were sweltering and violent, but mostly Italian. If I make a western, there had to be a Dutch perspective.”

The result, writing after three years, was Brimstone , a woman in the late nineteenth century in the Wild West is being hunted by an obsessed priest. …

Koolhoven: “But it was especially important that people were reading my screenplay. … I have no idea how the game works in Hollywood and my name means little there. ”