Sherry Hormann Takes Over As Director Of Natascha Kampusch Biopic

1:04 PM PDT 7/4/2011 by Scott Roxborough

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Bernd Eichinger was working on script of Austrian kidnapping drama when he died suddenly in January.

COLOGNE, Germany - Director Sherry Hormann has taken over the reins of a controversial biopic on Natasha Kampusch, the Austria girl kidnapped and held for 8 years in a basement cell. Oscar-nominated producer Bernd Eichinger (Downfall) was working on the script to the Kampusch film when he died suddenly in January.

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Constantin Film, which held the rights to the Kampusch story, said it would go ahead with the project. Hormann's last film, Desert Flower, was also a biopic, about refugee turned supermodel Waris Dirie.

The director, a transplanted American who lives and works in Germany, is currently shooting the comedy The Situation is Hopeless, But Not Serious based on the best-selling pop psychology book of the same name by Paul Watzlawick. Hormann is set to begin the Kampusch film, budgeted at $10 million, in 2012.