CCP’s EVE Online game has been celebrating its 10th consecutive year of subscriber growth. “The EVE universe is full of astounding stories of epic battles, daring heists and gripping political intrigue, all of which will make for an amazing television series,” said Kormákur. “The opportunity to interact with the fans of the EVE universe directly opens up all sorts of exciting possibilities.”
BlueEyes Vision’s Sigurjón Kjartansson, (pictured) head writer of the show added: “Our goal is to create a sci-fi series that will go to places you've never seen sci-fi go before. We are actually adapting from the Icelandic sagas on this one, a little bit Roman Empire, a little bit of Shakespeare. The world the geniuses at CCP have created is so full of potential it's almost endless. We will also be adapting "true stories" from real players, but now we are concentrating on writing the big story arc and creating the characters and setting that will define the show.”
Producer Magnus V. Sigurdsson who has created with Kjartansson some of Iceland’s most successful TV series in recent years (The Night Shift, The Press, The Court series) will oversee
EVE for Kormákur.
BlueEyes Vision’s creative team will first produce the 10 part crime series Trapped based on an original idea by Kormákur and Kjartansson. “I just recently completed the second draft of the whole series,” said the Icelandic writer to nordiskfilmogtvfond.com. “We started writing over a year ago and plan to be in production in January or February 2014. It has to be shot in the darkest winter and we need a lot of snow. “
“Our goal is to bring freshness to the Nordic crime genre,” continues Kjartansson. “Trapped is about psychological and physical isolation. It is about a small society and how it works. We are really telling a tale about the state of our nation. It is very character driven. Our hero is dealing with the same things the small town is dealing with. He is trapped in his own psychological condition while the town is trapped because of weather condition. The darkness, the howling winds, the paranoia, the body parts....it will all be there!”
As for the prolific Kormákur, he is in post-production with Universal Pictures’ 2 Guns and currently directing the pilot episode of the HBO thriller The Missionary starring Benjamin Walker.