Stellar Nordic cast on board REinvent’s TROM and Omerta 6/12

The crime show TROM supported by Nordisk Film & TV Fond starts filming in March.

The first ever original series to come out of the Faroe Islands, has been picking up industry attention since its first pitch at the Berlinale Co-Pro Series in 2019, when REinvent came on board as world distributor. The Copenhagen-based company is producing for NENT Group’s streamer Viaplay, in co-production with the Faroe Islands’ Kyk Pictues, Iceland’s True North and ZDF/ARTE.

Kasper Barfoed (Dicte-Crime Reporter, Summer of ‘92’) is directing, based on a script by Torfinnur Jákupsson and Donna Sharpe (West of Liberty), itself adapted from Faroese author Jógvan Isaksen’s novel.

Danish star actor Ulrich Thomsen (The Good Traitor, The New Pope) plays journalist Hannis Martinsson, who unexpectedly receives a message from Sonja, a young Faroese woman who claims she is Hannis’ daughter and that her life is in danger. Reluctantly returning home to the Faroes to investigate, Hannis discovers Sonja’s body in the bloody waters of a whale hunt. His search for answers soon brings him into conflict with the local detective chief inspector, Karla Mohr (Maria Rich from Follow the Money) as he uncovers a web of secrets in the close-knit community. The series will launch on Viaplay in 2022.

Meanwhile the Finnish film & four-part mini-series Omerta 6/12, shot mainly in Finnish, English and Swedish, reunites a strong Nordic and international cast around director Aku Louhimies (The Unknown Soldier, Rebellion).

Nanna Blondell (The Inner Circle, Twin, Walt Disney’s Black Widow), Sverrir Gudnason (Falling, Love Me) and Dragomir Mrsic (Alex, Edge of Tomorrow) have joined Jasper Pääkkönen (BlacKkKlansman) in the title roles. Other cast members include Joonas Saartamo, Laura Malmivaara, Pekka Strang, Eero Milonoff, Miodrag Stojanovic, Slaven Španović, Zijad Gračić, Michael Yare, Märt Pius and Juhan Ulfsak.

Omerta 6/12 is written by Jari Olavi Rantala (Deadwind, The Unknown Soldier) Antti J. Jokinen (The Resident, Purge) and Mika Marttunen (Vares), based on the best-selling book of the same name by Ilkka Remes.

Pääkkönen plays Max Tanner, a Finnish secret service agent operating for EU’s special forces. When a group of distinguished guests at the Finnish Presidential Residence are taken hostage during Finland’s Independence Day celebration Max Tanner is hired as chief negotiator. Soon it becomes clear that the terrorists behind the attack plan to destabilise the security of Europe.

Omerta 6/12 is produced by Antti J. Jokinen, Sikka Rautiainen, Mikko Tenhunen, Evelin Penttilä of Finland’s Cinematic. Executive producers are Cinematic’s Mikko Kodisoja, Thomas Fanning and Sara Norberg, and SF Studios’ Yaba Holst. The multi-format action thriller is co-produced by Estonia’s Stellar Film, with support from the Finnish Film Foundation, Business Finland-Audiovisual Production Incentive, Film Estonia cash rebate, Ida-Viru Film Fund and Tartu Film Fund among others.

SF Studios will handle the Nordic theatrical release, scheduled for November 2021. The TV version will premiere on C More in 2022.

REinvent Studios is in charge of world sales.