EXCLUSIVE: Following its Canneseries screening over the weekend, Norwegian relationship drama Rebound has been renewed for a second season.
Null47, an rising Norwegian streamer curated for youth and younger grownup audiences and different area of interest teams, has quietly greenlit Season 2 of the short-form present, which is from Melike Leblebicioglu Kaveh and stars Mathilde Storm, Björn Mosten and Arjan Nilsen.
Not solely that, however Norwegian manufacturing home Fenomen has already accomplished filming on a second ten-part run and we perceive Null47 plans to launch it subsequent month. Germany’s Beta Movie is presently buying rights to Season 1, whose episodes run to round seven minutes and are designed, in response to director Daniel Fahre, to be consumed “whereas travelling on the practice or the bus.”
Shot on a small price range, the whole present is filmed within the bed room of lead character Alex (Storm), who returns from Bali, hoping to reconnect along with her ex (Nilsen), however is as a substitute dumped and heartbroken. She then falls for her rebound (Mosten) and so they start a “situationship,” whereas she tries to reconcile how she feels about her former lover. “It was so cool to make a one-location story,” stated Fahre. “There’s such a wealthy custom with movies like Twelve Offended Males.”
Season 1 is enjoying the Canneseries short-form competitors in opposition to Finland’s Dorm No. 13, France’s Misplaced Media, Canada’s Getting Beneath Your Pores and skin, New Zealand’s N00B and Belgium’s Oh, Otto!.
Leblebicioglu Kaveh instructed Deadline at Canneseries at present the collection is predicated on her personal experiences. “I all the time consider break ups as my first trauma,” she stated. “That has occurred many occasions.”
She stated that the one-location format meant she was in a position to “utterly deal with the story, as you don’t produce other choices,” whereas Fahre famous that “the bed room is essentially the most intimate room in the home, the place you present your actual feelings, so it felt very acceptable to convey heartbreak.”
Storm – who has appeared in reveals comparable to Netflix’s One Day and Norwegian titles Rådebank and Innebandykrigerne – stated the appearing problem was “carrying each emotion on this one room.”
“You actually obtained into character if you entered that room – all of Alex’s issues have been on the cabinets and the mattress type of stank as a result of we’d been sleeping on it for 2 weeks. It’s her entire universe, from the outdated crisps on her mattress as a result of she’s going by means of heartbreak.”
Leblebicioglu Kaveh famous that producing on a really small price range gave her group readability. “Once you resolve on this framework, you don’t even have to consider it afterwards. You’re free to do no matter you wish to do, so it didn’t really feel limiting in any respect. There are such a lot of issues that aren’t being made that it’s nice to work and write, and are available out on the different finish.”
Fahre praised Null47 for “taking an opportunity on a relationship drama and smaller, confined tales,” relatively than specializing in style dramas. He added Season 2 would “discover extra of the complexities of the relationships” between Storm, Mosten and Nilsen’s characters.
