EXCLUSIVE: The Faroe Islands’ GRÓ Studios and the UK’s Three River Fiction are bringing against the law thriller, Reyna, to Collection Mania subsequent week.
Based mostly on an unique thought from UK author Chris Ould, the collection will comply with a British detective, Jan Reyna, whose household ties to the Faroe Islands draw him again to the nation. It’s being billed as “a Nordic noir crime thriller by way of a contemporary and unconventional British-Faroese lens.”
Plot particulars are scarce, however it’ll contain themes of identification, family tree, biotech and generational trauma, alongside thriller tropes and the rugged magnificence and haunting ambiance of the Faroe Islands. Casting will probably be unveiled at a later date.
London-based Three River Fiction is understood for BBC and Virgin Media Tv drama collection Useless and Buried, which starred Annabel Scholey and Colin Morgan, whereas the Faroe Islands’ GRÓ Studios is a three way partnership between creator, author and govt producer Torfinnur Jákupsson and producer Jón Hammer.
The companions plan to pitch the undertaking at Collection Mania and safe additional financing, manufacturing companions and worldwide distribution. There will probably be a number of Nordic initiatives on present on the occasion in Lille, France, together with the primary Finnish-Swedish showcase, as we reported yesterday.
The information comes after we revealed earlier this week that Jákupsson had launched UK manufacturing outfit Purple Herring Story, which is able to act as a global co-production participant within the North Atlantic area.
Jákupsson is the creator of Trom, a Faroese crime procedural that was picked up by networks throughout Europe, together with the BBC within the UK. He has beforehand detailed to us his bid to place the Faroe Islands on the worldwide movie and TV map.
Right this moment, he stated: “With Reyna, we’re deepening our exploration of what Nordic noir may be, bringing a uniquely British-Faroese story to a world viewers. This partnership with the UK represents an thrilling subsequent step for Faroese drama and for worldwide co-production within the area, each when it comes to trade development and in how we inform tales which are each intimate and far-reaching, rooted in our heritage however resonating far past it.
“It additionally marks an necessary step for GRÓ Studios as we department out internationally with our new UK affiliate Purple Herring Story. Reyna is strictly the type of layered, investigative storytelling we need to carry to the worldwide market.”
Benjamin McGrath, Reyna co-creator and govt producer at Three River Fiction, added: “Trom confirmed us the rugged great thing about the Faroes and their pure capability for nice storytelling, and Reyna will proceed this success as the primary ever UK-Faroese drama co-production. Reyna is a posh exploration of family tree and lineage and is as a lot a narrative of our foremost character’s self-discovery as it’s a knotty crime thriller. It’s thrilling to be partnering with Torfinnur to push the style into contemporary, uncharted territory.”
