EXCLUSIVE: The creators of Snabba Money and Paradis Metropolis are behind the most recent authorized thriller out of Scandinavia.
Burden of Justice (Försvararna) is ready on the earth of Sweden’s elite regulation corporations, the place desperation, ambition and ethical compromise simmer simply beneath the floor.
A co-production of Swedish pubcaster SVT, Try Tales and Movie i Väst, the fashionable Stockholm-set collection comes from Snabba Money author and creator Jens Lapidus and Frans Milisic Wiklund. Nicklas Wikström Nicastro and Caroline Landerberg from Try Studios, which made each Netflix’s Snabba Money and Prime Video’s Paradis Metropolis, are producing.
Denmark’s DR, Norway’s NRK, Finland’s YLE and Iceland’s RÚV are hooked up alongside SVT as a part of the European N12 drama partnership. DR Gross sales has landed worldwide rights.
Per the synopsis, Burden of Justice will comply with “the high-powered legal professionals of Matsson & Markovic as they navigate sweeping authorized reforms, shifting public sentiment, and the private fallout of lives lived within the ethical grey zone. Pals and companions Sasa and Kalle as soon as shared a imaginative and prescient of justice — now, with one embroiled in a private rape case and the opposite defending a high-profile gang member, their beliefs and loyalties start to unravel. In the meantime, junior legal professionals Oscar and Tilde face their very own reckoning as ambition results in prison collusion, and the road between skilled responsibility and private hazard begins to blur.”
Season 1 will run to eight episodes ands begins filming in August forward of a spring 2026 launch on SVT. Casting is at present underway.
The Burden of Justice manufacturing crew are out in Cannes this week, and simply unveiled the mission to potential companions and patrons, we perceive.
For co-producer Movie i Väst, the mission is the second Deadline has revealed immediately, following information of Golden Boys, one other Swedish drama set within the skilled world. That TV4 collection stars Adam Lungren in a narrative about two bold Swedish metropolis boy cousins who rise and fall within the monetary sector, creating numerous unlawful enterprise ventures alongside the way in which.
