First shots often sum up much of the drama ahead. Bowing June 12 on Orange TV in Spain, “The Head’” a signature series of The Mediapro Studio, is no exception.
Featuring among key cast Alvaro Morte, “La Casa de Papel’s” Professor, and Japanese pop idol Tomohisa Yamashita, written by Alex and David Pastor and directed by Jorge Dorado, the six-part South Pole survival thriller kicks off with a sustained aerial shot swooping over cruelly barren Antarctic expanses, then down to a small but raucous crowd partying outside the Polaris VI Scientific Research Station.
Still the same apparent shot, it shimmies past Morte – who plays the Station’s belligerent cook and is gamely serving hamburgers – then morphs seamlessly into the subjective Pov of Johan (Alexandre Willaume), the Station’s second-in-command, as he nonchalantly grabs a bottle of wine and fair sprints into the Station.
Heading to his bedroom to make love to his wife,...
Featuring among key cast Alvaro Morte, “La Casa de Papel’s” Professor, and Japanese pop idol Tomohisa Yamashita, written by Alex and David Pastor and directed by Jorge Dorado, the six-part South Pole survival thriller kicks off with a sustained aerial shot swooping over cruelly barren Antarctic expanses, then down to a small but raucous crowd partying outside the Polaris VI Scientific Research Station.
Still the same apparent shot, it shimmies past Morte – who plays the Station’s belligerent cook and is gamely serving hamburgers – then morphs seamlessly into the subjective Pov of Johan (Alexandre Willaume), the Station’s second-in-command, as he nonchalantly grabs a bottle of wine and fair sprints into the Station.
Heading to his bedroom to make love to his wife,...
- 6/4/2020
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Spanish TV outfit The Mediapro Studio has released a first-look of its upcoming series “The Head,” which will premiere on June 12 in 30 international territories.
Produced by The Mediapro Studio in association with Hulu Japan and HBO Asia, the moody survival thriller will make a global splash with a simultaneous worldwide launch.
The six-part series will air on Scandinavian platforms operated by Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent), on the OrangeTV platform in Spain, and in Japan and Southeast Asia via Hulu and HBO’s operations in those respective markets.
Globoplay, the upscale Brazilian Svod service of giant Brazilian broadcaster Globo, has also picked up the series for select Latin American markets for release later this year.
Set at a remote polar research station in the dark of winter, “The Head” follows a group of British, Danish, American, Irish, Japanese and Spanish scientists thrust into a snow-swept whodunit, and ratchets up the tension...
Produced by The Mediapro Studio in association with Hulu Japan and HBO Asia, the moody survival thriller will make a global splash with a simultaneous worldwide launch.
The six-part series will air on Scandinavian platforms operated by Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent), on the OrangeTV platform in Spain, and in Japan and Southeast Asia via Hulu and HBO’s operations in those respective markets.
Globoplay, the upscale Brazilian Svod service of giant Brazilian broadcaster Globo, has also picked up the series for select Latin American markets for release later this year.
Set at a remote polar research station in the dark of winter, “The Head” follows a group of British, Danish, American, Irish, Japanese and Spanish scientists thrust into a snow-swept whodunit, and ratchets up the tension...
- 4/22/2020
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
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