Miniseries ‘The Adrenalist’ Goes to Iceland’s RÚV, Denmark’s DR (EXCLUSIVE)
12.10.2022 - 13:49
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Marta Balaga Miniseries “The Adrenalist” has been pre-sold to Denmark’s DR and Iceland’s RÚV. Produced by True Content Production in Norway, and with TV2 already on board, it will be shot in Norway. Currently casting, the show – budgeted at €10.5 million – is expected to gather “top star actors from the Nordic countries,” says producer Renée Hansen Mlodyszewski. “The Adrenalist” will mark a second miniseries for writer and director Pål Sletaune, also behind “22 July,” about the infamous terrorist attack in 2011. Sletaune will once again refer to a true story, this time focusing on Arthur Omre: one of the most successful liquor smugglers in Norwegian history, later on transforming into a successful author. His gangster drama, set in Oslo in the 1920s during prohibition, “is a wild ride about the right man, at the right time, in the right place,” adds Hansen Mlodyszewski.
Ole Søndberg, also behind the “Millennium” trilogy, will produce as well, with Sofie Wanting Hassing tapped as an executive producer. In the meantime, Hansen Mlodyszewski will also focus on “Europa,” Brwa Vahabpour’s feature debut. The Norwegian production, currently being presented at MIA Market in Rome, will zoom in on Akam, who lives a relatively comfortable life in Oslo. When his uncle from Kurdistan suddenly decides to visit, he needs to go out of his way to be a good host. But time goes by and the uncle just isn’t leaving. “Brwa and I studied at the Norwegian Film School together. Just before we were about to graduate, he was pitching his feature debut to me and I was struck by the ideas he had,” she says. “I was intrigued.” “I have never laughed so much as when I was reading that first treatment. I felt the story was relevant for our times, it
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