From ‘The Leopard’ To ‘The Seduction’

Next 12 months guarantees to be a sizzling one for European productions, with every thing from Netflix‘s Italian period drama The Leopard to Max Turkey’s The First Göktürk drawing audiences to non-English-language fare. Throw within the second season of younger grownup crowd pleaser Maxton Hall: The World Between Us and Prime Video Italy’s Jesse Williams automobile Costiera and it guarantees to be a bumper 2025. Read on for our choice, and add your individual within the feedback.

‘Whiskey On The Rocks‘ (Disney+, SVT)
Sweden

We’re beginning our tour with Disney+’s first Nordic authentic sequence, provided that it premieres in choose nations and on Hulu within the U.S. on January 22. It started airing on SVT1 in Sweden over Christmas, however we’ll give it a go given the worldwide launch is etched in for 2025. The political satire — from Patrick Nebout, Henrik Jansson-Schweizer and Magnus Bimberg’s Humanoids — revolves across the early hours of October 28, 1981, when a Soviet nuclear Whiskey-class submarine was noticed aground inside a restricted Swedish army space. Step ahead Sweden’s cool-headed Prime Minister Thorbjörn Fälldin (Rolf Lassgård) who’s pressured to play peacemaker between Soviet chief Leonid Brezhnev (Kęstutis Stasys Jakštas) and U.S. President Ronald Reagan (Mark Noble).

‘Rise of the Raven‘ (TV2, ORF)
Hungary, Slovenia, Austria

This one is billed by producers as “the most epic Central European production of all time.” Hungary’s Gellért L. Kádár leads a global forged as Janos Hunyadi, the military commander who defeated Ottoman troops within the Battle of Belgrade in 1456. The epic swords ‘n’ sandals sequence, based mostly on Bán Mór’s best-selling sequence of novels, may fill a House of the Dragon-shaped gap, given Season 3 of the George R.R. Martin adaptation received’t shoot till subsequent 12 months. TV2 has Rise rights in Hungary and Slovenia and ORF in Austria. Germany’s Beta is distributing globally, and co-produces alongside a number of others, together with Robert Lantos, the Hungarian-Canadian producer.

‘The Leopard’ / ‘Il Gattopardo’ (Netflix)
Italy

Last 12 months, Netflix Italy started the 12 months with Supersex and this time spherical it’s swapping pornography for interval drama. The Leopard stars Kim Rossi Stuart because the Prince of Salina, who turns into conscious his aristocratic life is threatened by uprisings on the streets of 1860s Sicily. Forced to seek out new allegiances, he realises the very best path ahead will break his favourite daughter’s coronary heart. Directed partly by Tom Shankland, with Richard Warlow and Benji Walters as writers, the present is from Italy’s Indiana Production and the UK’s Moonage Pictures.

‘The Seduction‘ / ‘Merteuil’ (Max)
France

Diane Kruger and Anamaria Vartolomei are main Merteuil, Max’s reimagining of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’s traditional novel ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ (‘Dangerous Liaisons’). Star energy alone is sufficient to demand consideration, however the reality it’s Max’s first authentic out of France provides to the narrative juice. Expect intercourse, royal courts and smouldering French ardour, if the much-loved 1988 movie starring Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer and Keanu Reeves is something to go by. Outside of France, will probably be referred to as The Seduction, including to the anticipation.

‘Maxton Hall: The World Between Us’ Season 2 (Prime Video)
Germany

Arguably essentially the most sudden European TV hit of latest years, Maxton Hall: The World Between Us is a German-produced, UK-set highschool drama following Ruby Bell, (Harriet Herbig-Matten), an excellent younger girl aspiring for Oxford University. Winning a scholarship to elite faculty Maxton Hall, she meets rich fellow scholar James Beaufort is a fellow scholar and the pair are thrown collectively after Ruby unwittingly witnesses occasions which might be a part of an explosive secret. The UFA Fiction present was Prime Video’s largest-ever worldwide launch on its opening week and rapidly renewed for a second run in 2025. Speculation round a 3rd is already fervent.

‘Costiera’ (Prime Video)
Italy

Another out of the manufacturing hotbed of Italy, Costiera follows Desperate Housewives and Grey’s Anatomy star Jesse Williams enjoying a half-Italian former U.S. marine who returns to Italy, the land of his childhood, as a fixer in one of many world’s most luxurious lodges on the spectacular Positano shoreline. When one of many proprietor’s daughters disappears, he’s pressured into motion. It’s gunshots in opposition to the attractive backdrop of solar, sea and sand, and certainly one of Prime Video’s most buzzy 2025 contenders.

‘Heweliusz‘ (Netflix)
Poland

This is a five-parter out of Eastern Europe that has bought Netflix’s prime brass swimming with anticipation. Heweliusz in impressed by Poland’s most mysterious maritime tragedy, the place the ferry Jan Hevelius sank throughout a fierce storm on January 14, 1993, claiming 55 lives, with solely 9 survivors. The sequence dives into the tragedy, whereas additionally exploring loss, grief and the battle for justice. Fall 2025 has been set as a launch date, with manufacturing persevering with below the steerage of High Water makers Jan Holoubek, Kasper Bajon, and Anna Kępińska.

The First Göktürk (Max/BluTV)
Turkey

Turkish drama stays among the many hottest on the worldwide market, and The First Göktürk is among the many originals Warner Bros Discovery is utilizing to assist the rebrand of its BluTV streamer below the worldwide Max model. Alper Çağlar’s historic fantasy drama concerning the begin of an Asian empire has a hybrid three-act format, starting with a three-episode arc earlier than a full-length characteristic follows. A 3rd half will spherical off the mission. Max is promising a “rich, yet undiscovered narrative world, unforgettable characters, and multilingual release, the series and film tell a story of friendship, freedom, and historical struggle.”