Two-time Oscar nomineeRoy Scheideris returning to our movie screens 14 years after he passed away. The movieBeautiful Blue Eyeswill be released on June 10th worldwide after a special charity screening in the United Kingdom on June 6th. This news comes to us fromVariety.The film is set in Germany with flashbacks to Nazi-occupied Poland. Scheider plays Joseph, a retired New York City police officer who goes to Germany to visit his estranged son. While in Germany, he discovers that his son’s neighbor is the Nazi officer who killed his family in Poland during the Holocaust. Coming face to face with the man who killed his family, Joseph must decide what to do, and he enlists his son in an effort to kidnap the former Nazi officer in order to make him pay for his crimes.Beautiful Blue Eyeswill be released by the new company Moviefarm, a company founded co-founded by distribution veteran Martin Myers and Alexander Newton. Myers said of Scheider’s final film, “Beautiful Blue Eyesis a gripping thriller that addresses the premise of what a Holocaust survivor might have done had he come across the Nazi who murdered his family. I’m honored to bring Roy Scheider’s breathtaking final performance to global audiences as Moviefarm’s first release.”Scheider finished filming his scenes forBeautiful Blue Eyes, however, technical issues had caused many scenes to need to be redone, and the actor had passed away before he could reshoot any scenes. As a result, the production had to wait until the technology was able to produce a workable facsimile of Scheider to complete the production. Recent CGI advancements, such as the ones used to recreate Carrie Fisher inRogue Oneand to de-age Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in the season two finale ofThe Mandalorian,have enabled the production of the film to be completed.You can watch the teaser below.
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Roy Scheider has had a long history of successful movies in Hollywood. Scheider was seen as a leading man throughout the seventies and early eighties. He was nominated for a Best Leading Actor Oscar for the 1980 movieAll That Jazzand for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for the 1975 movieThe French Connection. Scheider was also well known for his TV work, most notably in the science fiction seriesSeaQuest DSV, which saw him return to an underwater role. It was a role he was nervous about taking, however, the show became a fan favorite and, although expensive to produce, was well received by critics and fans alike.
Scheider is probably best known for his role inJaws,where he uttered the famous and often misquoted line, “You’regonna need a bigger boat.” He later reprised his role in the secondJawsfilm.
Beautiful Blue Eyesmarks the first time Scheider has appeared on-screen since 2009’sIron Cross, andit is a reworking of that film.Iron Crosshad to be completed without Scheider as he passed away while the film was still being produced. He had completed the scenes for the film however technical issues required scenes to be reshot without him.Beautiful Blue Eyeswill allow the story to be told the way it should have been with Scheider’s full involvement.
