Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal star in Jim Sheridan's Brothers, produced by Sigurjón Sighvatsson.

Jim Sheridan’s Brothers, an American remake of Susanne Bier’s 2004 film Brödre, opens Stateside on December 4th. Starring Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire, the film is produced by veteran Icelandic producer Sigurjón Sighvatsson, along with Ryan Kavanaugh and Michael De Luca. The film, already being mentioned as a candidate for the upcoming Oscars, gets a glowing review from Screendaily’s Mike Goodridge. He writes:

“Brothers is that rare animal, a US remake of a fine foreign language film which works on both a creative and thematic level in its conversion to an American setting.”

Sigurjón Sighvatsson.

Sighvatsson has been an established LA-based producer since the early nineteen eighties. He initially co-founded Propaganda Pictures, the music video powerhouse. His many producer’s credits include David Lynch’s Wild at Heart and TV series Twin Peaks; Kathryn Bigelow’s K-19: The Widowmaker, starring Harrison Ford; Mark Pellington’s Arlington Road with Jeff Bridges and Tim Robbins; and Julian Schnabel’s Basquiat with Jeffrey Wright and Benicio Del Toro.

He occasionally produces films in Iceland, including Baltasar Kormákur’s Little Trip to Heaven (2005), starring Forest Whitaker and Julia Stiles and Ari Alexander’s documentary Screaming Masterpiece (2005) on the Icelandic music scene. He’s the executive producer of Dagur Kári’s The Good Heart, starring Brian Cox and Paul Dano, which opens in USA in 2010.

Check out the trailer for Brothers below: