

She greeted us kindly, as usual, but she wasn’t happy. It was exactly what a Queen of the Pigeons should look like, I thought. The pigeons were like a white cloud around Sofia, and she was standing there quite still in the middle, surrounded by the flapping of their wings. “How could I have gone otherwise? Sofia’s pigeons are the only ones that fly through the skies as far as they like.” “Wasn’t it one of those pigeons that lent you the protection of its feathers when-when you came to me?” “Do you remember?” I whispered to Jonathan.

When I saw them, I remembered her, that white one that sat on my windowsill, at least a thousand years ago now. We rode over there in the morning, and Sofia was standing there feeing her pigeons, all her snow-white pigeons. Her house was on the outskirts of Cherry Valley, with the high mountains just behind it. It was quite a way to Tulip Farm, where Sofia lived. “The Queen of the Pigeons-I call her that for fun.” “We're going over to the Queen of the Pigeons for a while today.” Watch the trailer for the 1977 iteration after the jump.Chapter 5 - The Brothers Lionheart Fairy tale by Astrid Lindgrenīut then the day came when I found out what was special about Sofia. Last year we heard that Alfredson was still working on the script for a Tinker Tailor follow-up, but it appears that Brothers Lionheart is taking priority at the moment. Swiss cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema ( The Fighter, Interstellar) will act as director of photography. Tinker Tailor scribe Peter Straughan and Let the Right One In screenwriter John Ajvide Lindqvist penned the screenplay for The Brothers Lionheart, which is set for a Christmas 2014 release in Sweden. Author Astrid Lindgren’s source material revolves around two brothers who meet up in the afterlife and have fantastic adventures.

THR reports that Alfredson will next direct an adaptation of the classic Swedish fantasy novel The Brothers Lionheart, which was previously turned into a film in 1977 by director Olle Hellbom.

Director Tomas Alfredson has certainly taken his time in choosing a follow-up project to his slow-burn 2011 espionage pic Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, but it appears that he has now made up his mind.
