Frank Doelger Helms ‘Concordia’ For ZDF, France Télévisions And Others – Deadline

Frank Doelger is helming a surveillance drama set that counts broadcasters ZDF, MBC and France Télévisions and streamer Hulu Japan as companions.

The Sport of Thrones govt producer is showrunner and govt producer on the six-part Concordia, which has gone into manufacturing, with capturing going down in varied areas in Rome, northern Italy and Leipzig, Germany. His Beta Movie- and ZDF Studios-owned three way partnership manufacturing home Intaglio Movies is producing.

Barbara Eder, who’s hooked up to Doelger’s Mipcom launch drama The Swarm, which we wrote about final week forward of the market, is directing the present, which is capturing in English. Ute Leonhardt, Rafferty Thwaites, Jan Wünschmann and Robert Franke are additionally exec producers, with Nicholas Racz (The Burial Society, The Actual Factor) and Mike Walden (The Frankenstein Chronicles, U Need Me 2 Kill Him) the collection co-creators. They’re writing alongside Isla van Tricht and the producers are Tobias Gerginov, Jacob Glass, and Sergio Ercolessi.

The drama is ready in a world powered by an AI to make sure a freer, fairer and extra humane society. Nonetheless, because the group approaches its twentieth anniversary and cities all over the world line as much as replicate it, the key behind its creation threatens to destroy it.

Worldwide Emmy-winner Christiane Paul (Counterpart, In July) stars as Juliane, the visionary behind the brand new utopia. Steven Sowah (For Jojo, Earlier than We Develop Outdated ) performs her son Noah, the ambassador in control of increasing the experiment; Ruth Bradley (Ted Lasso, People) is Thea, an exterior investigator, who joins up with Isabelle, performed by Nanna Blondell (Black Widow, Home of the Dragon), to uncover how the utopia was created. Kento Nakajima (Detective Novice, She was Fairly) plats A.J., a 27-year-old Japanese wunderkind and head of the AI system, whereas Jonas Nay (Line of Separation, Deutschland 83) performs Moritz, a part of an anti-surveillance group known as ‘The Faceless.’ Ahd Kamel (Collateral, Honour), Hugo Becker (Baron Noir, Leonardo) and Joséphine Jobert (Dying in Paradise, Summer time Crush) additionally star.

 “All through historical past, blueprints for the reimagining of society alongside non secular, political, financial, and environmental strains have been put ahead – notably in durations marked by a way of tumult, cultural and monetary dislocation, and an increase in violence, like our personal,” stated Doelger. “The visionaries behind Concordia suppose they lastly have the know-how to understand such a courageous new world, solely to find that there is no such thing as a strategy to hold evil out because it comes from the within.”

Help for the collection comes from Germany’s Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Sächsische Staatskanzlei and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, with ZDF Studios and Beta Movie collectively – the identical gross sales construction as eco-thriller drama The Swarm. The collection is Intaglio Movie’s newest manufacturing following the eight-part eco-thriller The Swarm, which is co-produced with ndF Worldwide, and counts ZDF, France Télévisions, RAI, ORF, SRF, Viaplay and Hulu Japan as pre-buyers and companions. It’s presently in post-production.