EXCLUSIVE: Pachinko and The Morning Present Studio Media Res is constructing out its worldwide division by hiring a Nordics boss, who has landed first venture.
Anna-Klara Carlsten, whose credit embrace Spring Uje Spring and Tore, will lead the Nordics slate and report into Lars Blomgren, who runs worldwide for Media Res.
Carlsten’s first venture is an SVT adaptation of Let The Proper One In writer John Ajvide Lindqvist‘s newest novel Summer time of 1985, which might be directed by The Bridge co-creator Björn Stein. Printed in 2023, the story facilities on a bunch of pals getting ready for an epic summer time collectively within the Stockholm archipelago. When the invention of a mythic creature with mysterious origins and skills upends their lives, new experiences and pleasures induce the group on the growing price of their psyches. The e book comes from the celebrated writer of Let The Proper One In, Let Me In and Border, all of which have been made into characteristic movies by Tomas Alfredson, Matt Reeve and Ali Abbasi respectively. Stein most just lately directed Whiskey on the Rocks for Disney+ and SVT.
Carlsten is a vet Scandi producer whose credit embrace William Spetz’s Tore for Netflix, two seasons of Viaplay’s Thunder in my Coronary heart and have movies Exodus and Spring Uje Spring.
Ex-Banijay exec Blomgren joined Michael Ellenberg’s Media Res to go up the newly-opened worldwide arm in 2023. His workforce has since enlisted Oscar-winning filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg (One other Spherical) to spearhead a TV adaptation of Astrid Lindgren’s youngsters’s fantasy novel The Brothers Lionheart into an occasion restricted sequence.
Blomgren known as Carlsten “one of the crucial in-demand producers within the Nordics.”
“Now we have nice ambition to emulate the standard of the work of our colleagues within the U.S. studio however with a distinctly worldwide really feel; exploring multi-faceted tales from throughout the UK, Europe and past,” he added. “We sit up for sharing information in regards to the upcoming slate of initiatives arrange with main broadcasters and streamers.”
Carlsten mentioned: “I’m thrilled in regards to the alternative to work alongside Lars, Michael [Ellenberg], and the gifted workforce at Media Res. Our focus might be on producing high-quality, internationally-oriented scripted content material underneath the umbrella of this extremely revered manufacturing studio.”
Summer time of 1985 “completely encapsulates what I wish to carry to the get together,” she added. Manufacturing on the sequence will begin later this yr with Stein directing, Amy Deasismont writing and co-directing, and Melina Maraki writing. Carlsten will produce alongside EPs Blomgren and writer Lindqvist.
Media Res’ earlier signature hires have been a trio of TV execs who got here in late final yr. Earlier this week the studio was revealed to be behind a Jeremy Allen White-starring Netflix TV adaptation of André Aciman’s Enigma Variations.
