PARIS — European powerhouse Studiocanal is fasten army with Disney Nordic to hurl out a bigscreen instrumentation of Jonas Jonasson’s bestseller “The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared.”

Disney Nordic will recover a pic opposite Scandinavia Dec. 25, while TeleMunchen will discharge it in Germany and Austria, and Wild Bunch in Benelux.

Meanwhile, Studiocanal will hurl out a pic in France, U.K. and Australia, and will repute it in general market, kicking off sales during Cannes.

Swedish up-and-comer Felix Herngren, creator of strike comedy skein “Solsidan,” has fabricated a expel of Swedish thesps, including Robert Gustafsson, Mia Skaringer and Johan Rheborg, and English thesp Alan Ford.

Described as “quirky and definitely unique” by Studiocanal, pic turns on a healthy 100-year-old man, Allan Karlsson, who escapes his nursing home to embark on an random journey, involving, among other surprises, a container pressed with money and some upsetting criminals.

“The book is already substantiating itself as a vital code around a world. For us as melodramatic distributors, we consider we have a leader formed on what we saw so distant of a absolute film instrumentation a producers and a partners during Disney will be delivering during a finish of a year,” pronounced Harold Van Lier, exec VP general placement during Studiocanal. “It is an impossibly cinematic story that is really comfortable and filled with feel-good humor. It will positively be one of a vital films entrance out of Scandinavia during a finish of this year.”

Added Patrick Nebout, writer during Nice FLX Pictures, “It’s a tale with a concept theme, a large heart and a clarity of amusement that travels perfectly, relocating millions of readers all over a world.”

The book has been published in some-more than 35 countries and sole some-more than 5 million copies.

Pic is constructed by Henrik Jansson-Schweizer, Nebout, Herngren and Malte Forssell for Nice FLX Pictures.