The premium Danish crime show is produced by Miso Film for TV2 Danmark, with support from Nordisk Film & TV Fond.

FreemantleMedia International handles sales.

The celebrated Danish auteur director Christoffer Boe (Reconstruction, Offscreen) has co-written the screenplay with Simon Paternak, collaborator on his 2013 film hit Sex, Drugs & Taxations (Spies & Glistrup).

The 6x48’ series is a thriller drama about community, loyalty and betrayal amongst war veterans, gang members and the police force, intertwined with a love story between war veteran CC (Dar Salim) and police officer Louise (Danica Ćurčić). Lars Ranthe (Dicte, The Hunt) plays Tom, the unscrupulous boss of the gang. The stellar Scandi cast also comprises Nicolas Bro, Søren Malling, Natalie Madueño, Jacob Oftebro and Andrea Vagn Jensen.

Boe said: "TV is the legitimised drug of our time, but when it is at its best, it’s not just an empty rush and a long battle with withdrawals until the next episode. TV also allows the fictional characters to truly unfold, themes of society are being explored and life is dramatised in all its nuances of grey. It is a drug with substance! The ambition for Warrior is to give TV a sharp, modern and potent mini-series that doesn’t look back, while it moves away from conversations in the kitchen and the daily weltsmertz out into the peripheral borders of society, where men and women live and die to protect their ideals.”

Miso Film’s co-founder and producer Jonas Allen said: “With Warrior we wish to combine our experience with the TV-format with Boe’s definitive creative approach and visionary powers in order to create a far-reaching, intensive series about brotherhood, loyalty and love.”

Katrine Vogelsang, Head of TV 2 Fiction added: “It is absolutely fantastic that such a uniquely talented director as Christoffer Boe, has the wish and desire to throw himself onto the TV-series format. It is an honour that he wants to be part of lifting TV 2’s fiction that has big plans for the series.”

Principal photography on the TV series Warrior is in full swing and the premiere on TV2 is set for the fall 2018.

After Warrior, Boe will direct the film The Purity of Vengeance, fourth and final instalment in the Department Q series based on Jussi Adler Olsen books.

The multi-talented Boe is currently in the spotlight at the Moesgaard Museum in Aarhus with the cinematic production The Journey about basic human conditions.