Belgium released its first-ever original Netflix series, Into the Night, created by Jason George, on May 1, 2020. The series is based on the sci-fi Novel The Old Axolotl, written by Jacek Dukaj, and has two seasons so far. Into the Night follows the story of a few lucky passengers and crew of an overnight flight whose plane is hijacked out of Brussels — but things take a turn as soon as a sudden solar event starts killing everything in its path. Can you imagine a world where sunshine harms every living creature on earth and passengers in a hijacked...
- 12/3/2023
- by Safwan Azeem
- TVovermind.com
When acclaimed supernatural series Les Revenants/The Returned aired on Canal+ in 2012, it emerged into a fairly barren landscape for French-language scripted TV drama. The story of a remote mountain town whose dead are mysteriously revived, its stylish, cinematic look and philosophical, grown-up approach to genre television had little precedent. While the French ‘polar’ or detective series had long been a television staple, France had almost no tradition of sci-fi, horror and fantasy TV shows – or at least, none taken seriously by its understandably cinephile-and-proud cultural gatekeepers.
In the last five years, coinciding with the global growth of scripted TV drama, that’s all changed. Crime thrillers still wear the crown, but alongside them, France and Belgium are producing and exporting more continuing television dramas and miniseries than ever. From Black Mirror-ish future-set Osmosis and consciousness-swapping Transfers, to cool Parisian teen Vampires and creepy horror Marianne, scripted French-language genre television is exploding.
In the last five years, coinciding with the global growth of scripted TV drama, that’s all changed. Crime thrillers still wear the crown, but alongside them, France and Belgium are producing and exporting more continuing television dramas and miniseries than ever. From Black Mirror-ish future-set Osmosis and consciousness-swapping Transfers, to cool Parisian teen Vampires and creepy horror Marianne, scripted French-language genre television is exploding.
- 7/22/2020
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Netflix has commissioned its first Belgian original, Into The Night, written and created by Narcos and Scandal producer Jason George.
It is the latest move for the Svod service as it ramps up its investment in original content across Europe.
Into The Night will be directed by Over Water’s Inti Calfat and Dirk Verheye and produced by Entre Chien et Loup.
George, who has written all six episodes, will act as showrunner and exec producer alongside Tomek Baginski (The Witcher) and Jacek Dukaj, whose The Old Axolotl novel is the inspiration for the drama.
Into the Night tells the story about retaining humanity in the face of a cosmic disaster, as a flight departs Brussels. The series will feature an international cast from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, and Turkey.
The series begins with a sudden solar event, as the sun inexplicably starts killing everything in its path.
It is the latest move for the Svod service as it ramps up its investment in original content across Europe.
Into The Night will be directed by Over Water’s Inti Calfat and Dirk Verheye and produced by Entre Chien et Loup.
George, who has written all six episodes, will act as showrunner and exec producer alongside Tomek Baginski (The Witcher) and Jacek Dukaj, whose The Old Axolotl novel is the inspiration for the drama.
Into the Night tells the story about retaining humanity in the face of a cosmic disaster, as a flight departs Brussels. The series will feature an international cast from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, and Turkey.
The series begins with a sudden solar event, as the sun inexplicably starts killing everything in its path.
- 9/3/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Given just how frequently we praise the work of Polish animation house Platige Image in these pages I'm just going to skip all the regular preamble and assume you already know what you need to know about them here and move on to the meat of things. That being Wroniec.
Early in November word came out that Platige's Jakub Jabłoński - co-director of animated short Teaching Infinity and artistic director of Platige's upcoming live action feature Hardkor 44 - had illustrated Wroniec, a new book by Polish fantasy author Jacek Dukaj. And at the time that appeared to be all that this was: a series of illustrations. But now? Now a little something has surfaced that promises more. Is this a book trailer? An animated short based on the book? An upcoming feature? Not speaking Polish and information in English being scarce indeed, I really don't know. But I do know this: It is absolutely fantastic.
Early in November word came out that Platige's Jakub Jabłoński - co-director of animated short Teaching Infinity and artistic director of Platige's upcoming live action feature Hardkor 44 - had illustrated Wroniec, a new book by Polish fantasy author Jacek Dukaj. And at the time that appeared to be all that this was: a series of illustrations. But now? Now a little something has surfaced that promises more. Is this a book trailer? An animated short based on the book? An upcoming feature? Not speaking Polish and information in English being scarce indeed, I really don't know. But I do know this: It is absolutely fantastic.
- 12/9/2009
- Screen Anarchy
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