Environmental Thriller The Swarm Lines Up International Partners

Originally commissioned by the German public broadcaster ZDF, the environmental thriller The Swarm has added a trio of international partners to co-produce and co-finance the project.

Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group), Rai Fiction and France Télévisions have come on board the Intaglio Films and ndF International Production project. Multiple Emmy Award winner Frank Doelger (Game of Thrones) will be executive producer on the eight-episode drama series, which is based on Frank Schätzing’s best-selling novel.

Academy Award nominee Mark Huffam (The Martian, Game of Thrones, Saving Private Ryan) will also join the series as an executive producer. Production on the 8×45-minute drama is set to begin later this year. The English-language thriller is produced by Friedemann Goez (The Same Sky) and Charlotte Groth (All Claire).