EXCLUSIVE: The primary trailer for European crime drama Secure Harbor is right here and it delivers on author and showrunner Mark Williams purpose to make sure viewers get a bang for his or her buck. “It was essential that I blow stuff up as a result of I identical to doing that, and in addition to ensure that stakes are excessive sufficient that it feels elevated,” the Ozark co-creator tells Deadline of his new present.
He provides: “It was a chance for me to strive one thing a bit of bit totally different, to attempt to carry what I discovered from my previous experiences to Europe and to do one thing extra international minded – an entertaining present that might attain vast audiences however do it in a location that was rather less acquainted, to me anyway.”
The drama revolves round Rotterdam, Europe’s largest port. It follows gifted hacker Tobias, performed by Alfie Allen, and his formidable greatest good friend Marco, performed by Dutch actor Martijn Lakemeier (Marie Antoinette). The misfit pair are intent on getting into the tech billionaires membership.
They’re plunged into the chaos of organized crime once they cross paths with the Irish mob. Main the crime household’s operations in Holland are Sloane, performed by Charlie Murphy (Peaky Blinders). Her on-screen brother, Farrell, is Jack Gleeson, like Allen a Recreation of Thrones alum. Colm Meaney (Hell on Wheels) is the household patriarch. They recruit Tobias and Marco to hack into the harbor’s safety system to purloin undetected shipments of narcotics.
Jack Gleeson in ‘Secure Harbor’ Credit score: Submarine
“Tobias grew up making his personal laptop methods and I rapidly began to speak to hackers, to be taught the distinction between the black hat hackers and white hat hackers,” Allen says. “He’s coming from a bizarre dysfunctional relationship together with his father, and a non-existent mom, so it was very attention-grabbing to become familiar with.”
Rotterdam is an enchanting backdrop for against the law drama, he provides: “Visually, when it comes to Rotterdam, there are constructions there you don’t actually see fairly often. There are mad buildings which can be virtually constructed on stilts. It’s form of loopy, I believe that might lend itself to the sequence having fairly an unique really feel.”
Impressed by a long-read article, the fictionalized story is a Submarine manufacturing, in affiliation with Evening Practice Media and Williams’ Zero Gravity. It was greenlit by Dutch streamer Videoland and its Belgian counterpart Streamz.
“I beloved it as a result of it was a narrative concerning the second the drug commerce goes digital, and these two common guys who rapidly form of turn out to be the masterminds of this operation,” says Femke Wolting, co-founder and managing director of Mediawan-backed Submarine.
Eccho Rights, a part of Evening Practice Media, is throughout worldwide gross sales and premiered the sequence at MIPCOM in Cannes.
“My normal thought course of was to maintain it easy,” Williams says about learn how to incorporate the pc hacking parts right into a high-octane drama.
“An viewers doesn’t wish to see a bunch of individuals typing on a pc for very lengthy. The purpose was to current it in a approach we might perceive what they had been attempting to realize and the way they had been doing it, however a lot of the present is about relationships and character conditions and the drama behind these.”
He provides that ideas have already turned to a second sequence. “Completely, we’ve already created the define for season two.”