Kit Harington announced in a new interview with ScreenRant while promoting his movie “Blood for Dust” that his “Game of Thrones” spinoff centered around Jon Show is “off the table” and no longer in development at HBO. The network declined to comment. News broke in June 2022 that Harington was set to return to his iconic “Thrones” role, which earned him two Emmy nominations (one for supporting actor and another for lead actor in a drama series).
“It was Kit Harrington who brought the idea to us,” author George R.R. Martin later confirmed in a blog post. “I cannot tell you the names of the writers/showrunners, since that has not been cleared for release yet but Kit brought them in too, his own team, and they are terrific.”
Now talking to ScreenRant, Harington admitted the team “couldn’t find the right story to tell” so the project is not in active development anymore.
“It was Kit Harrington who brought the idea to us,” author George R.R. Martin later confirmed in a blog post. “I cannot tell you the names of the writers/showrunners, since that has not been cleared for release yet but Kit brought them in too, his own team, and they are terrific.”
Now talking to ScreenRant, Harington admitted the team “couldn’t find the right story to tell” so the project is not in active development anymore.
- 4/9/2024
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
This post contains spoilers for the first season of Netflix's "3 Body Problem."
It's been nearly five years since "Game of Thrones" viewers said goodbye to the ambitious fantasy epic that headlined HBO's lineup for the better part of the 2010s. In that time, series co-creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss started developing a deeply controversial (now nixed) series called "Confederate," executive produced "The Chair" (a short-lived Netflix show about academia), directed a Leslie Jones standup special, and came under scrutiny for their lack of preparedness while making "Thrones."
Now, after five years of work on varyingly successful stray projects, Benioff and Weiss are back with co-creator credits on another ambitious genre story based on multiple beloved books. This time around, they're putting their spin on Liu Cixin's "3 Body Problem" alongside co-creator Alexander Woo. While the two shows actually couldn't be more different, it's impossible not to...
It's been nearly five years since "Game of Thrones" viewers said goodbye to the ambitious fantasy epic that headlined HBO's lineup for the better part of the 2010s. In that time, series co-creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss started developing a deeply controversial (now nixed) series called "Confederate," executive produced "The Chair" (a short-lived Netflix show about academia), directed a Leslie Jones standup special, and came under scrutiny for their lack of preparedness while making "Thrones."
Now, after five years of work on varyingly successful stray projects, Benioff and Weiss are back with co-creator credits on another ambitious genre story based on multiple beloved books. This time around, they're putting their spin on Liu Cixin's "3 Body Problem" alongside co-creator Alexander Woo. While the two shows actually couldn't be more different, it's impossible not to...
- 3/21/2024
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Everyone lies in the World War I series “Davos 1917.” Mostly because they have to.
“You have war, you have the elite coming together in this one place. You have to watch your step and tread carefully. Everything could be a trap,” says Jan-Eric Mack, who directed alongside Christian Theede and Anca Miruna Lazarescu.
The show focuses on a young nurse Johanna who finds herself surrounded by spies in the Swiss resort town. Desperate to reunite with her illegitimate daughter, she discovers she has a talent for espionage, too.
“I think she always had these skills. She just couldn’t show them in the house she grew up in,” says lead actor Dominique Devenport, also known for “Sisi.”
“She has always been different. And then, suddenly, she gets an opportunity to develop talents she didn’t even know she had. That’s why it’s happening so quickly, in a way.
“You have war, you have the elite coming together in this one place. You have to watch your step and tread carefully. Everything could be a trap,” says Jan-Eric Mack, who directed alongside Christian Theede and Anca Miruna Lazarescu.
The show focuses on a young nurse Johanna who finds herself surrounded by spies in the Swiss resort town. Desperate to reunite with her illegitimate daughter, she discovers she has a talent for espionage, too.
“I think she always had these skills. She just couldn’t show them in the house she grew up in,” says lead actor Dominique Devenport, also known for “Sisi.”
“She has always been different. And then, suddenly, she gets an opportunity to develop talents she didn’t even know she had. That’s why it’s happening so quickly, in a way.
- 10/18/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Liam Cunningham is eager to play his “Game of Thrones” character Sir Davos Seaworth again on HBO’s upcoming Jon Snow spinoff series. The actor spoke to Den of Geek before the SAG-AFTRA strike to promote his role in the upcoming Dracula movie “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” and revealed he personally reached out to “Thrones” co-star Kit Harington about bringing Davos back to the screen.
“I did send [Kit] a text saying, ‘Better Call Davos,'” Cunningham said. “I haven’t heard anything back. You probably know more than I do. I wish them the best to whoever’s involved in it, and if the check is big enough, I might even show up again!”
Cunningham debuted as Davos in the second season of “Game of Thrones.” The character was originally the right-hand man of Stannis Baratheon, but he became one of Jon Snow’s most trusted advisors...
“I did send [Kit] a text saying, ‘Better Call Davos,'” Cunningham said. “I haven’t heard anything back. You probably know more than I do. I wish them the best to whoever’s involved in it, and if the check is big enough, I might even show up again!”
Cunningham debuted as Davos in the second season of “Game of Thrones.” The character was originally the right-hand man of Stannis Baratheon, but he became one of Jon Snow’s most trusted advisors...
- 8/9/2023
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
A digest of key Swiss industry news announced during the Locarno Film Festival.
Swiss public broadcaster Srg has extended its co-production agreement with the local film industry for another four years and has increased its annual budget by CHF1.5m ($1.7m) to CHF34m ($38m).
The new “Pacte de l’Audiovisuel” co-production agreement between Srg and the local film industry will run from 1 January 2024 until the end of 2027.
The annual budget available in the “Pacte” for co-producing Swiss feature films will increase from $10m (Chf 9m) to $11.45m CHF10m in response to rising costs for film production.
In addition,...
Swiss public broadcaster Srg has extended its co-production agreement with the local film industry for another four years and has increased its annual budget by CHF1.5m ($1.7m) to CHF34m ($38m).
The new “Pacte de l’Audiovisuel” co-production agreement between Srg and the local film industry will run from 1 January 2024 until the end of 2027.
The annual budget available in the “Pacte” for co-producing Swiss feature films will increase from $10m (Chf 9m) to $11.45m CHF10m in response to rising costs for film production.
In addition,...
- 8/7/2023
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Austrian television is awash with crime, mystery and historical drama, and the country’s biggest hits and new productions are heading to MipTV.
Among this year’s most anticipated titles is the upcoming “Kafka,” starring Swiss actor Joel Basman as the famed Bohemian writer.
The six-part series is currently shooting in Vienna and Salzburg and is set to premiere on Austrian pubcaster Orf and Germany’s Ard early next year, commemorating the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka’s death.
“Kafka” is produced by Ard, Orf and John Lueftner and David Schalko’s Vienna-based Superfilm. Schalko is directing and co-writing the series with bestselling author and screenplay writer Daniel Kehlmann (“Measuring the World”), based on the Kafka biography by Reiner Stach, who is also
advising the production.
Sold internationally by Orf-Enterprise, the public broadcaster’s commercial subsidiary, the series’ ensemble cast includes David Kross (“Davos”), Nicholas Ofczarek (“Pagan Peak”) and Liv Lisa Fries...
Among this year’s most anticipated titles is the upcoming “Kafka,” starring Swiss actor Joel Basman as the famed Bohemian writer.
The six-part series is currently shooting in Vienna and Salzburg and is set to premiere on Austrian pubcaster Orf and Germany’s Ard early next year, commemorating the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka’s death.
“Kafka” is produced by Ard, Orf and John Lueftner and David Schalko’s Vienna-based Superfilm. Schalko is directing and co-writing the series with bestselling author and screenplay writer Daniel Kehlmann (“Measuring the World”), based on the Kafka biography by Reiner Stach, who is also
advising the production.
Sold internationally by Orf-Enterprise, the public broadcaster’s commercial subsidiary, the series’ ensemble cast includes David Kross (“Davos”), Nicholas Ofczarek (“Pagan Peak”) and Liv Lisa Fries...
- 4/17/2023
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Germany’s impressive crop of crime drama, mystery, suspense, apocalyptic catastrophe, royal intrigue and tales of the supernatural is certain to attract buyers at this year’s MipTV in Cannes.
The selections of series, TV movies and unscripted shows offer a wide range of content but also remain heavy on crime — a favorite German genre.
Among the new offerings is Beta Film’s fact-based title “I am Scrooge.” Produced by Zeitsprung Pictures, the Cologne-based company behind the hit Netflix spy thriller “Kleo,” “I am Scrooge” chronicles the true story of Arno Funke, a frustrated artist who found fame as a bombmaking extortionist in the early 1990s.
Identifying himself as Dagobert Duck — the German name for the Disney character Scrooge McDuck — Funke targeted some of Germany’s biggest department stores, beginning with Berlin’s KaDeWe in 1988, while continually outwitting police and even becoming a local folk hero. The six-part series stars Friedrich Mücke,...
The selections of series, TV movies and unscripted shows offer a wide range of content but also remain heavy on crime — a favorite German genre.
Among the new offerings is Beta Film’s fact-based title “I am Scrooge.” Produced by Zeitsprung Pictures, the Cologne-based company behind the hit Netflix spy thriller “Kleo,” “I am Scrooge” chronicles the true story of Arno Funke, a frustrated artist who found fame as a bombmaking extortionist in the early 1990s.
Identifying himself as Dagobert Duck — the German name for the Disney character Scrooge McDuck — Funke targeted some of Germany’s biggest department stores, beginning with Berlin’s KaDeWe in 1988, while continually outwitting police and even becoming a local folk hero. The six-part series stars Friedrich Mücke,...
- 4/16/2023
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
German film and TV distribution and licensing company Telepool, which is owned by Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Westbrook, is moving into lead producing movies and series, its CEO Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann tells Variety exclusively in her first interview since joining the company in January.
Munich-based Telepool is celebrating its 60th anniversary on Wednesday, and although it has a barrel-load of experience in selling, distributing, licensing, financing and co-producing movies and series, this shift into initiating and lead producing represents a significant step for the company. It also forms part of Westbrook’s broader strategy for international expansion, which – in part – lay behind its acquisition of Telepool in December 2021.
Higuchi-Zitzmann seems ideally suited to the task as she has worked for several leading German film and TV companies, giving her experience in both distribution and production. Most recently, she served as the managing director of Pantaleon Films, whose founders include German star Matthias Schweighöfer,...
Munich-based Telepool is celebrating its 60th anniversary on Wednesday, and although it has a barrel-load of experience in selling, distributing, licensing, financing and co-producing movies and series, this shift into initiating and lead producing represents a significant step for the company. It also forms part of Westbrook’s broader strategy for international expansion, which – in part – lay behind its acquisition of Telepool in December 2021.
Higuchi-Zitzmann seems ideally suited to the task as she has worked for several leading German film and TV companies, giving her experience in both distribution and production. Most recently, she served as the managing director of Pantaleon Films, whose founders include German star Matthias Schweighöfer,...
- 4/14/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
(Welcome to Best Action Scene Ever, a column dedicated to breaking down the best, most effective action sequences throughout the genre. In this edition, we give some love to the first and, yes, the best of the battles staged in HBO's "Game of Thrones.")
We've somehow made it through nine editions of this column before expanding to include television, a medium that has grown exponentially in the last few decades to tell big-budget stories through a startlingly cinematic lens. As much as the previous era of "Prestige TV" helped pave the way for television shows to be taken much more seriously, it wasn't until "Game of Thrones" that global audiences could truly grasp what that meant. In its latter days, the flagship HBO series became known for ramping up the existential threat of its White Walker plotline, pouring millions of dollars of resources into staging blockbuster-sized set pieces with utterly convincing dragon VFX,...
We've somehow made it through nine editions of this column before expanding to include television, a medium that has grown exponentially in the last few decades to tell big-budget stories through a startlingly cinematic lens. As much as the previous era of "Prestige TV" helped pave the way for television shows to be taken much more seriously, it wasn't until "Game of Thrones" that global audiences could truly grasp what that meant. In its latter days, the flagship HBO series became known for ramping up the existential threat of its White Walker plotline, pouring millions of dollars of resources into staging blockbuster-sized set pieces with utterly convincing dragon VFX,...
- 3/27/2023
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
The live-action Marvel TV/Netflix series "Iron Fist", Seasons One and Two, based on the Marvel Comics characters, follows 'Danny Rand' (Finn Jones), and his supernatural 'Iron Fist', now streaming on Disney +:
"...in Season 2, 'Danny Rand' moves in with his girlfriend 'Colleen Wing', living in her Chinatown, New York City dojo. At night he fights criminals on the streets using the magical power of the 'Iron Fist' and sees an increase in crime between gangs such as the 'Golden Tigers' and the 'Hatchets' following the destruction of the 'Hand' crime organization.
Colleen finds a box bearing the 'kamon' (crest) of her family, who pushed her away years earlier. She begins investigating where the box may have come from, and comes to believe that furniture shop owner 'Frank Choi' may know of its origin.
"But he goes missing when he is unable to pay the Golden Tigers for protection.
"...in Season 2, 'Danny Rand' moves in with his girlfriend 'Colleen Wing', living in her Chinatown, New York City dojo. At night he fights criminals on the streets using the magical power of the 'Iron Fist' and sees an increase in crime between gangs such as the 'Golden Tigers' and the 'Hatchets' following the destruction of the 'Hand' crime organization.
Colleen finds a box bearing the 'kamon' (crest) of her family, who pushed her away years earlier. She begins investigating where the box may have come from, and comes to believe that furniture shop owner 'Frank Choi' may know of its origin.
"But he goes missing when he is unable to pay the Golden Tigers for protection.
- 12/21/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
The high-end drama has been showcased at pitching events from Berlin to Turin.
German sales outfit Global Screen has acquired international rights to historical high-end drama series Davos, starring Dominique Devenport and David Kross, now shooting in Switzerland and Germany.
Inspired by true events during the First World War, the espionage thriller centres on a young Swiss nurse working in a Swiss health resort where various spies are meeting to hatch a daring plan.
Devenport most recently starred as Elisabeth Empress of Austria, in Rtl+ ‘s series Sisi.
The series is a co-production between Switzerland’s Contrast Film and Germany’s Letterbox Filmproduktion,...
German sales outfit Global Screen has acquired international rights to historical high-end drama series Davos, starring Dominique Devenport and David Kross, now shooting in Switzerland and Germany.
Inspired by true events during the First World War, the espionage thriller centres on a young Swiss nurse working in a Swiss health resort where various spies are meeting to hatch a daring plan.
Devenport most recently starred as Elisabeth Empress of Austria, in Rtl+ ‘s series Sisi.
The series is a co-production between Switzerland’s Contrast Film and Germany’s Letterbox Filmproduktion,...
- 11/23/2022
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
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