ZDF, ACT4 Companion on Nordic Crime Thriller ‘Giant Brother’
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Germany’s ZDF Studios has teamed up with Iceland’s ACT4 to develop the Nordic crime thriller “Giant Brother,” based on the award-winning debut novel ‘Stóri Bródir’ of Icelandic creator Skuli Sigurdsson.
A narrative of revenge and justice, “Giant Brother” amenities on a mysterious decide in black who, every full moon, viciously assaults a person sooner than vanishing into the night time time. The victims, all unpunished sexual offenders, are fastidiously chosen.
A detective and an investigative journalist workforce as a lot as treatment these crimes, whereas the story moreover unfolds from the perspective of this enigmatic assailant, who sees himself as an agent of justice for the victims failed by society.
Actor, producer, screenwriter and ACT4 co-founder Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (“The Vacationer,” “Severance”) will operate showrunner and authorities producer. He leads the writers room, which includes actress Aníta Briem who wrote and created the sequence “As Prolonged as We Keep” along with Anna Gunndís Guðmundsdóttir and Teitur Magnússon.
Acknowledged Ólafsson: “As towards the regulation fiction, the story of ‘Giant Brother’ is thrilling and brutal, a extremely suspenseful narrative. It rises above its type as a result of it poses a troublesome question for our society: Anyone is taking it upon himself to punish sexual offenders when our justice system fails. Commonly his actions become additional brutal and he begins killing his victims. Who will we facet with, the self-proclaimed warrior of justice or the individuals who discover themselves attempting to catch a murderer?”
Darri Ólafsson and Skuli Sigurdsson
“We’re excited to affiliate with ACT4 on the variation of Skuli Sigurdsson’s brilliantly crafted novel. The characters, the storytelling from two completely various factors of view and the heightened suspense as a result of the plot unfolds makes for a chilling, binge-worthy drama,” acknowledged Yi Qiao, director drama, ZDF Studios.
ACT4 was primarily based in 2023 by a bunch of award-winning Icelandic film commerce veterans comprising Ólafsson (“The Secret Lifetime of Walter Mitty,” “True Detective: Night Nation,” “The Vacationer”), Hörður Rúnarsson (“Black Sands,” “Fractures,” “Journey”), Jónas Margeir Ingólfsson (“The Minister” 1 & 2, “Stella Blómkvist II,” “Skinny Ice”) and Birkir Blær Ingólfsson (“The Minister” 1 & 2, “Skinny Ice”).
Turning into a member of forces with a bunch of worldwide patrons, they constructed the model new indie Nordic manufacturing powerhouse and optioned “Giant Brother” closing yr as thought-about considered one of its first initiatives for the big show.
Creator Sigurdsson, a lawyer and former journalist, gained the Icelandic Crime Novel Award and was nominated for the Glass Key Award.
In newest info, ZDF Studios teamed up with Spanish broadcaster RTVE and Galician manufacturing house Portocabo on the procedural “Weiss & Morales,” which began capturing inside the Canary Islands closing April.
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