Finland's Rabbit Films Fast-Tracks Move Into Scripted With 'Mobile 101,' 'Summer of Sorrow' & More (EXCLUSIVE)
” and “Summer of Sorrow” shot this year in the middle of the pandemic with huge casts and period set designs.
The company is also developing a soap drama series set in a department store in Helsinki following the personal and professional lives of its workers from the 1960s to the 1980s; and “Benjamin Busterfly” , a live-action kids’ superhero film based on a book from a well-known Finnish book. Haapkylä played a crucial role in bringing Lalli’s project “Mobile 101” to the company and helping her shape the project into a series about the origin story of Nokia in the late 1980’s. She became Lalli’s creative ally through the development and production phase and even played an extra during the shoot.
“Our approach to scripted is the same we’ve always with non-scripted,” said Suominen. “We don’t have a format catalog and we don’t have the backup of a Warner or an ITV so when we go to the channel, we need to bring them something that they didn’t expect and we want to be an alternative.”
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