EXCLUSIVE: Trom creator Torfinnur Jákupsson is launching a UK indie and has unveiled a Nordic Noir set in London’s Canary Wharf on its debut slate.
The Scandi inventive, who opened the primary movie and TV studio in the Faroe Islands, has launched London-based improvement firm Red Herring Story, which is able to develop high-end scripted and unscripted thrillers with a global co-production focus. Red Herring might be a UK affiliate of Jákupsson’s Faroe Islands-based GRÓ Studios.
Red Herring launches with “a slate of socially conscious crime narratives,” it stated, with certainly one of its first tasks being a company crime thriller set in London’s Canary Wharf, delving into greenwashing, international finance, and political affect, which the corporate termed a “Nordic Noir in the city.”
Red Herring Story can be introducing its Faroese equal Roykstovan, a reimagined writers’ room impressed by Faroese storytelling traditions. Historically, the ‘roykstova’ was the communal coronary heart of the house, the place individuals gathered to spin yarn and inform tales for each leisure and survival.
Jákupsson is the creator of Trom, a Faroese crime procedural that was picked up by networks throughout Europe together with the BBC. He has beforehand detailed to us his bid to place the Faroe Islands on the worldwide movie and TV map.
Jákupsson stated: “Red Herring Story gives us a direct London base to foster closer collaborations with UK broadcasters, streamers, and co-production partners to bring those projects to market, as well as to expand our UK slate. Red Herring Story aims to bridge the Nordic storytelling tradition of atmospheric investigative thrillers with the sharp, dynamic intensity of British drama. Our focus is on culturally relevant stories with a strong sense of place that also resonate beyond borders.”