The Swarm, the big-budget series based on the Frank Schätzing bestseller, has signed up a global cast of stars and up-and-comers for the 8-part environmental thriller. European actors, including Cé…
Schätzing’s novel, which has been translated into 27 languages worldwide, chronicles the struggle of humankind against an unknown swarm intelligence that lives in the depths of the sea. When humanity’s pollution and wanton exploitation of the seas disturb this mysterious collective, it strikes back, threatening all human life on earth. The fate of the world rests in the hands of a small group of scientists.
Doelger and Schätzing adapted the novel for the screen. Steven Lally and Marissa Lestrade penned the screenplay with additional writing by Chris Lunt and Michel A. Walker. Polar and deep-sea researcher Professor Antje Boetius of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute Helmholtz-Centre for Polar and Marine Research and Dr. Jon Copley of the University of Southampton, United Kingdom act as scientific advisors on the series.
“It was important to me, that we don’t simply adapt The Swarm for the screen, but rather modernize it,” said Schätzing. “An interpretation for the days to come, that puts the lives, fears, and hopes of younger generations center stage…The scrips are written, now actors, directors, DOPs, and visual effects artists are taking over. I am eager to see what will happen and will likely sneak onto the set, to maybe play a fish. Or at least, a white crab.
“After three years of intense preparation and a year of delay due to the COVID crisis, the film adaptation ofis finally getting off the ground,” said ZDF’s Zervos. “The series will be state-of-the-art: emotional, close to the present, diverse, as well as scientifically and technologically up to date. In doing so, we want to create a feeling that the story is happening here and now, not in some future.
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