Speaking at a panel organized by Series Mania’s Forum, executives from Sky Studios touted flexibility and autonomy as their keys to success, teasing further synergies with fellow Comcast-owne…
-owned services like Peacock and SkyShowtime while emphasizing that such broadcast bids were but one option among many.
“[We take things] very case-by-case,” said Meghan Lyvers, director of original drama at Sky Studios U.K. “Not all projects that we develop as Sky Originals in Europe will go into the SkyShowtime cluster of territories, [but] they can. And we [welcome] this flexibility, because it allows projects to come to us with other territories attached.
The exec pointed toward upcoming projects like the Eddie Redmayne led “The Day of the Jackal” and the literary adaptation “The Tattooist of Auschwitz,” which were co-commissioned by Sky Studios and NBCUniversal’s Peacock, while noting that Sky Originals like “Gangs of London” and the upcoming Julianne Moore starrer “Mary & George” found broadcast homes outside of Europe with AMC Networks.
That thread of European cooperation also links much of Sky Studios’ upcoming Italian-language slate, which includes the rise-of-Mussolini drama “M. Son of the Century” from director Joe Wright and the migrant thriller “Orizzonte: Hostages of the Sea” from German filmmaker Oliver Hirschbiegel . The Series Mania panel then drew to a close with an extended preview of the Germany language “Helgoland 513.” Written and directed by Robert Schwentke, and co-produced by UFA Fiction and Sky Studios, the sci-fi drama imagines a world post eco-apocalypse, bringing to screen a wash of dystopian visuals and bursts of violence in a trailer scored to Lorde’s brooding cover of “Everybody Wants To Rule the World.
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