EXCLUSIVE: Trom creator Torfinnur Jákupsson is launching a UK indie and has unveiled a Nordic Noir set in London’s Canary Wharf on its debut slate.
The Scandi inventive, who opened the primary movie and TV studio within the Faroe Islands, has launched London-based improvement firm Pink Herring Story, which can develop high-end scripted and unscripted thrillers with a world co-production focus. Pink Herring might be a UK affiliate of Jákupsson’s Faroe Islands-based GRÓ Studios.
Pink Herring launches with “a slate of socially acutely aware crime narratives,” it stated, with one in every of its first tasks being a company crime thriller set in London’s Canary Wharf, delving into greenwashing, world finance, and political affect, which the corporate termed a “Nordic Noir within the metropolis.”
Pink Herring Story can be introducing its Faroese equal Roykstovan, a reimagined writers’ room impressed by Faroese storytelling traditions. Traditionally, the ‘roykstova’ was the communal coronary heart of the house, the place individuals gathered to spin yarn and inform tales for each leisure and survival.
Jákupsson is the creator of Trom, a Faroese crime procedural that was picked up by networks throughout Europe together with the BBC. He has beforehand detailed to us his bid to place the Faroe Islands on the worldwide movie and TV map.
Jákupsson stated: “Pink Herring Story provides us a direct London base to foster nearer collaborations with UK broadcasters, streamers, and co-production companions to convey these tasks to market, in addition to to develop our UK slate. Pink Herring Story goals to bridge the Nordic storytelling custom of atmospheric investigative thrillers with the sharp, dynamic depth of British drama. Our focus is on culturally related tales with a powerful sense of place that additionally resonate past borders.”
