Adi Hasak is called showrunner, ie supreme artistic director for Eyewitness. He says in a interview with Aftenposten that he has faith that it can be made more seasons of the new series, which will premiere on USA Network Sunday 16th October at 22.
– We’ve got the absolute best primetime TV series in the United States. That’s when the big networks set up their best series, and it is this time of transmission successes as Mad Men Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones earlier had, he says on the phone from Los Angeles.
Show Runner Adi Hasak, behind Eyewitness, is one of them you can meet on Nordic series days in Central Oslo 28 . and 29 September. Then it is the world première of the first episode of the American series to the public. The festival features some 20 views New lines and conference debates, panels and interviews with key players in front and behind the camera in Nordic TV industry. Seven drama bosses from Scandinavia will be collected at the same scene.
Eyewitness is the first ever recreation of a Norwegian TV series for the US market, and is already designated by the important site the Daily Beast as one of autumn’s most exciting series premieres.
the Daily Beast notes that the hitherto underrated actress Julianne Nicholson ( Black Mass and Masters of Sex ) finally gets to see in a starring role, as politikvinnn Helen Torrance.
A milestone
– This is a milestone for Norwegian drama production, says drama director Iva Køhn NRK.
He believes the success of the newly recorded series can provide export even more Norwegian series.
– Foreign monitors closely in the action of the Norwegian series creation, and focus on Norway and nordic noir will probably increase even more if it goes well for Eyewitness , says Kohn.
Hasak says he discovered Eyewitness , which had premiere on BBC1 in October last year, during Mipcom festival that took place about the same time in Cannes.
Since everything has gone a record quickly. USA Network agreed to make an American television series of the concept last November.
– We did not have a finished script one time when we got the green light. It is very rare in today’s television industry that a concept goes straight to the series this way. And it is remarkable that we are ready for viewing on TV network in October the following year, says Hasak.
Roses uniqueness of Eyewitness
– What was it about the Norwegian TV series you found so interesting?
– There was history, the concept and the good characters who are wrapped up in a good psychological thriller. Serieskaper Jarl Emsell Larsen has done a fantastic job of creating Eyewitness. He has been presented with a unique series. It is rare to see a format that is so well put together, with so much energy and so readily transform into a version for the US market, he says.
Moves whey Hudson River
Eyewitness going on whey in the Norwegian original series. In Eyewitness is the action added a small town on the Hudson River in New York State. The recordings were made in Canada.
– What did you change when the series would be adapted for an American audience?
– First and foremost, we have well changed the pace. The American audience expects the story to move a little faster. We also did part of the plot easier and focused more on the relationship between the characters. I liked how the local police hero’s past in the big city was used in Eyewitness and retained tension between city life and reality in the village, he said.
– We do not put in more action or violence. This is the first of a psychological thriller, he emphasizes. Hasak also points out that Americans have not made a clean blueprint of the Norwegian series, but rewritten much of the action for American conditions.
Another difference is that the original series was six episodes each were in one hour. The American version is 10 times 45 minutes.
La series with Jennifer Lopez aside
Hasak had been showrunner for the series Shades of Blue with Jennifer Lopez and Ray Liotta starring, when he began to show interest in Eyewitness.
– Many in Los Angeles said I was crazy that would leave an American television series with Lopez, favor for an unknown Norwegian series. But it was something special about this series that I fell for right away, he said.
Previously it has been created English versions of Nordic TV series such as Bridge ( The Bridge ) and crime ( The Killing ). The three American film versions of the Millennium books of Stieg Larsson also got speed on the Nordic wave.
Hasak absolutely believe it can be increased interest in looking for more Norwegian and Nordic series content if Eyewitness success.
– Why is nordic noir so hot right now among international creators of film and TV series?
– It’s hip, looks different and has a different rhythm. The stories allow themselves to be dark, and they lie not perfectly flat to the public. Both the visual aesthetics and the way stories are told is completely different than what we’ve operated on in the United States. The characters are perceived as real, the actors do a spectacular effort. The women in the Eyewitness is also so great that they are allowed to play out on screen as completely natural, he points out.
– A pure bonus
Serieskaper and screenwriter Jarl Emsell Larsen, who was behind the Eyewitness , says he is honored that it is now made an American version. In parallel, he actually also worked with a Romanian team for HBO Europe who have made a rumenskspråklig version of the series.
– All this I take as a pure bonus. It was never in my mind that Eyewitness should go forth into the world in this way, when I put together this series, he said.
In our got gold patch æresfagpris for through 30 years having been a pioneer in Norwegian TV drama and nordic noir genre.
He has previously written and directed television series such as Codename Hunter, Black money – white lies , Fox Greenland and Offshore.
Got Emmy for policewoman role
another milestone the Norwegian TV series environment were also reached through Eyewitness: as the first Norwegian actress was Anneke von der Lippe in November last year awarded the prestigious, international Emmy award for his role as sheriff Helen Sikkeland in the popular NRK series.
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