EXCLUSIVE: Right here’s your first-look at Tuppence Middleton in Blood Cruise, the SVT and CBS Studios horror-drama launching this week at Sequence Mania.
The pics we’ve for you as we speak additionally embody photographs of Downton Abbey and Sense8 star Middleton and An Peculiar Household and The Final Kingdom actor and Björn Bengtsson, plus co-star Kolbjörn Skarsgård, and ensemble forged members Marika Lagercrantz, Orlando Wahlsteen and Lissa Edil.
Björn Bengtssen in ‘Blood Cruise’
Andrej Vasilenko
Blood Cruise (aka The Cruise), made for Swedish pubcaster SVT, follows the story of a cruise ship whose passengers and crew should unite to outlive a terrifying evil that’s unleashed on board.
It’s based mostly on Mats Strandberg’s novel and comes from Sweden’s Northern Fable and Imaginarium Productions, the UK-based manufacturing home lead by Lord of the Rings star Andy Serkis, and is being made in affiliation with Scandi pubcasters DR, NRK, RUV and YLE, with assist from the Nordic Movie & TV Fund. Paramount International Content material Distribution is procuring the sequence outdoors Sweden.
Strandberg and Malin LagerLöf are the writers, with Jonas Alexander Arnby is the director. Northern Fable’s Alexander Rönnberg and Imaginarium’s Will Tennant are the producers, with Jonathan Cavendish and Phil Robertson exec producing for Imaginarium, Sonja Hermele and Johanna Gårdare doing the identical for SVT, and Lindsey Martin and Dave Clarke hooked up for CBS Studios.
Logline reads: “The Baltic Charisma guarantees a dream vacation cruise for all: households, buddies, lovers – however this journey will shortly turn into a nightmare… In the midst of the night time because the revelry on board peaks the passengers discover themselves dealing with an historical evil.
“Adrift within the frozen sea, there’s no option to name for assist and nowhere to run. Can a disparate group of passengers come collectively to defeat the upcoming risk? Who can they belief, and the way far will they go to outlive?”
Kolbjörn Stargård in ‘Blood Cruise’
Toma Kaliukeviciute
The ensemble forged contains Middleton, Bengtsson, Jessica Grabowsky, Lagercrantz, Arvin Kananian, Thomas Hanzon, Scott Arthur and Christopher Wagelin.
A piece in progress of the present was offered on the Göteborg Movie Pageant’s TV Imaginative and prescient sidebar, and will probably be offered this morning at Lille’s Sequence Mania on the Sweden & Finland Showcase.
Marika Lagercrantz in ‘Blood Cruise’
Andrej Vasilenko
Orlando Wahlsteen (forefront) and Lissa Edil in ‘Blood Cruise’
Andrej Vasilenko
“From the very first second I learn the novel, Blood Cruise stood out as a novel mix of Scandinavian drama and spine-chilling horror,” mentioned Northern Fable’s Rönnberg.
Imaginarium’s Tennant mentioned the comprised “distinctive European expertise,” whereas director Arnby added, “Engaged on Blood Cruise has been a spectacular problem, mixing the horror style with an intense Scandinavian relationship drama.”
The Sequence Mania Discussion board begins as we speak and runs via Thursday (March 27).
