Roman Polanski, beware!

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Roman Polanski, your legend is about to be challenged. Before shooting Washington, the third and final installment of his Amerika trilogy, Lars von Trier is going to make some kind of classy horror film about the Devil. To be called Antikrist, it will ìput an end to the big lie that God created the world,î according to von Trierís producer, Peter Aalbek Jensen, and will explore von Trier's contrarian view that ìit was Satan who created the human race and the world.î Thereís no script yet apparently, but according to a story in the Danish daily Berlingske Tidende , the plan is for the amply-budgeted, digitally-shot, English-language film to be completed in time for showing at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. The plot will be about an American biologist (probably to be played by a big-name American actor) who develops a fear of nature, finding it to be a place of evil, and resultantly seeks out therapeutic help. As Antikrist develops, von Trierís theory of Satan being the true father and creator will be explored. (Thereís a more detailed piece about this in the Swedish newspaper daily Dagens Nyheter .)