Tommy Wirkola Describes ‘What Happened To Monday’ as a 1990s Paul Verhoeven Movie!
Tommy Wirkola , the man who brought us such genre gems as Dead Snow and Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters , is back with a brand new Netflix sci- fi thriller called What Happened to Monday , starring Noomi Rapace . Told in the vein of a 1990s Paul Verhoeven movie, this film is set in a futuristic world where massive overpopulation has led to a one child per family policy, strictly kept in practice by government head Nicolette Cayman ( Glenn Close ), men in suits round up any unauthorized siblings and haul them away to a lab where they are cryogenically frozen until a day when the world is better suited to hold them. That’s why when Terrence Settman ( Willem Dafoe )’s wife dies giving birth to their seven identical twins, he takes it upon himself to keep them hidden from the public eye and teaches them to all take on the same personality, Karen Settman, so that they are not discovered and taken away. He gives each of his seven little girls a different name of the week, whi...