Espen Lauritzen from Ibenfeldt is not just a Norwegian singer, radio presenter and event planner. He has also been a celebrated screenwriter since this year – but this career only started when he Everything on one card at the age of 40 set.
I quit my job and literally googled ‘How to write a film’.
Espen divides his story on Reddit. Here he says that he knew exactly what story he wanted to tell, just had no idea how to write a film script. Five years later, his idea is for Most successful film that ran in Norwegian cinemas in 2024. And his first work also receives a lot of praise on Netflix.
Film No. 24 tells of a Norwegian war hero the film of the Norwegian is called No. 24 and deals with the history of Gunnar Sønsteby.
I wanted to write a film about my great role model Highly decorated resistance fighter of the Second World War in Norwaymy home country.
According to some information, Espen has been studying the history of the Second World War for over 30 years.
He was able to save himself in practice the research phase. Instead, the Norwegian invested in two known books that should teach him the script letter: Blake Snyders Save the Cat and Syd Fields Guide to Screenwriting. Reddit also helped him. After just two months, the script was for his first film.
A historical expert sent the script to the right people
Whether it was lucky or tactics: Instead of contacting public pitch competitions, Espen first contacted one leading historian and experts on the subject of Gunnar Sønsteby. As a consultant, he already had contacts in the film industry – and finally sent the script to the producer John M. Jacobsen, who is known for films such as Pathfinder and head.
From then on everything went very quickly: more people were consulted and the project succeeded from the Norwegian film funding Budget in the millions to secure. Five years after Espen terminated his job, No. 24 appeared on Netflix and now harvests Praise from all sides.
At Netflix: No. 24 is a gripping historical action thriller
The film tells how Gunnar Sønsteby is Resistance to the Nazis connected and finally the leader of the Famous Oslo gang will carry out the successful sabotage campaigns against the Nazis. With a rating from 7.5 on IMDB and 6.9 at 61 votes in the Moviepilot community, No. 24 points. A member of Letterboxd writes:
No. 24 is a moving and thoughtful Dealing with that Psychological and emotional price of the warinterspersed with a few really brutal moments that stick to the memory.
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It is not only the historical history that the film tells is gripping and inspiring. The origin of No. 24 shows us: Sometimes it only takes courage And a good story. You can stream the film for free on Netflix.