CANNES — Set at the South Pole in Winter, shot largely in English but with Danish as well, featuring heavy VFX, co-produced by Hulu Japan and HBO Asia and starring “La Casa de Papel’s” Alvar…
CANNES — Set at the South Pole in Winter, shot largely in English but with Danish as well, featuring heavy VFX, co-produced by Hulu Japan and HBO Asia and starring “La Casa de Papel’s” Alvaro Morte and Japanese idol Tomoisha Yamashita, survival thriller “
The set up, says Tellem is “a very simple and clear story.” On the last day of summer, at Polaris VI Antarctic base, most people fly out leaving a skeleton staff, ten, eleven, twelve people, called the Winterers, to stay behind for six months in complete isolation and darkness. Few companies have expanded so fast into the drama series space than The Mediapro Studio which now has 34 scripted series, plus 60 non-scripted shows, in various stages of production. That can be put down in a significant part to the energies of, a longterm exec at Israel’s Keshet – its VP, programing from 2007, SVP Content since 2014. There he oversaw “Prisoners of War,” remade in the U.S. as “Homeland,” for which he won an Emmy as executive producer.
Studio, he said. One reason why he left Israel for Spain was to be able to make series at this scale, he adds. “It’s very compelling, a super international story: the world right now is built up of many people living not where they were born,” he comments. “I’ll try to downplay it, but I think we discovered something which might be, maybe, a new phase in reality challenge shows,” Tellem says.
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